CVE-2026-6068 (GCVE-0-2026-6068)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-10 13:30 – Updated: 2026-05-20 14:02
VLAI
Title
CVE-2026-6068
Summary
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 remote code execution.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-10 14:56 UTC
CWE
Assigner
certcc CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 156 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
NASM NASM Affected: nasm-3.02rc5
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