CVE-2017-17818

HIGH

Nasm Netwide Assembler - Out-of-Bounds Read

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392428

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0068
EPSS Percentile 71.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (2)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
nasm/netwide_assembler 2.14 rc0
Published Dec 21, 2017
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026