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.
Published: 2017-12-21
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-8966 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3694-1 NASM vulnerabilities
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Nasm Netwide Assembler
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:59:17.931Z

Reserved: 2017-12-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-17815

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-12-21T03:29:00.397

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-17815

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-12-21T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-17815 - Bugzilla

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