vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-3694-1 (CVE-2017-17820): NASM vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 20, 2017
Added
Jul 4, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a use-after-free in pp_list_one_macro in asm/preproc.c that will lead to a remote denial of service attack, related to mishandling of operand-type errors.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-nasm
Title
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