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Ubuntu: USN-3694-1 (CVE-2017-17818): NASM vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3694-1 (CVE-2017-17818): NASM vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/20/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/04/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-nasm

References

  • USN-3694-1
  • CVE-2017-17818

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