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Ubuntu: USN-3694-1 (CVE-2017-17815): NASM vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3694-1 (CVE-2017-17815): NASM vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/04/2018
Modified
11/08/2024

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-nasm

References

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