NASM contains a heap use after free vulnerability in response file (-@) processing where a dangling pointer to freed memory is stored in the global depend_file and later dereferenced, as the response-file buffer is freed before the pointer is used, allowing for data corruption or unexpected behavior.
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References
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| https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm/issues/222 |
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History
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| Description | NASM contains a heap use after free vulnerability in response file (-@) processing where a dangling pointer to freed memory is stored in the global depend_file and later dereferenced, as the response-file buffer is freed before the pointer is used, allowing for data corruption or unexpected behavior. | |
| Title | CVE-2026-6068 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: certcc
Published:
Updated: 2026-04-10T14:56:52.908Z
Reserved: 2026-04-10T13:29:25.329Z
Link: CVE-2026-6068
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2026-04-10T14:56:23.209Z
NVD
Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-10T14:16:38.723
Modified: 2026-04-10T16:16:36.630
Link: CVE-2026-6068
Redhat
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