First published: Thu Dec 21 2017(Updated: )
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in is_mmacro() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because of a missing check for the relationship between minimum and maximum parameter counts.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
---|---|---|
Nasm Netwide Assembler | =2.14-rc0 | |
Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
debian/nasm | 2.15.05-1 2.16.01-1 2.16.03-1 |
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The vulnerability ID is CVE-2017-17815.
The severity of CVE-2017-17815 is medium with a severity value of 5.5.
The affected software is Netwide Assembler (NASM) version 2.14rc0.
To fix CVE-2017-17815, update to NASM version 2.13.02 or apply the necessary patches provided by your Linux distribution.
You can find more information about CVE-2017-17815 in the references provided: http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3, https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436, and https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/.