CVE-2017-17818

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-12-21

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-125

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Netwide Assembler (Nasm)

References

• https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392428
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/