🛡️ CVE-2023-31722 on Debian — nasm

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

There exists a heap buffer overflow in nasm 2.16.02rc1 (GitHub commit: b952891).

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-31722 as tracked by Debian, for the package nasm. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31722 is classified as CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write. Data is written past the end or before the start of a buffer, corrupting whatever is stored there.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-31722 is recorded against 1 package.

  • nasm

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2023 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2023-31722 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-05-17
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
nasm — —

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