CVE-2026-6068

critical · 9.6

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.

9.6

CVSS

0.4%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

36th

EPSS percentile

2026-04-10

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-416

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
nasm	netwide_assembler	3.02

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References

https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm/issues/222
https://sekai.team/blog/nasm-cve-disclosure/cve-2026-6068

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