CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17810
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a "SEGV on unknown address" that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because asm/preproc.c mishandles macro calls that have the wrong number of arguments.
Affected configurations
• nasm netwide assembler 2.14
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/59ce1c67b16967c652765e62aa130b7e43f21dd4 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392431 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/59ce1c67b16967c652765e62aa130b7e43f21dd4 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392431 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/ Third Party Advisory