CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-17818
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-12-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read that will cause a remote denial of service attack, related to a while loop in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c.
Affected configurations
• nasm netwide assembler 2.14
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392428 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/ Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392428 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/ Third Party Advisory