CVE-2017-14228 — NULL Pointer Dereference in Nasm

CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference8 documents7 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 59.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
NasmDebian NasmCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedSep 9
Latest updateMay 14

Description

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function paste_tokens() in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will lead to remote denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/nasm< nasm 2.13.02-0.1 (bookworm)
▶Debiannasm/nasm< 2.13.02-0.1+3

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-qcwm-w563-m65j: In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2017-14228: In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2↗2017-09-09
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
NASM vulnerabilities↗2018-06-28
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Red Hat
nasm: NULL pointer dereference in the paste_tokens function↗2017-08-28
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Debian
CVE-2017-14228: nasm - In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the f...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14228 nasm: NULL pointer dereference in the paste_tokens function [fedora-all]↗2017-09-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-14228 nasm: NULL pointer dereference in the paste_tokens function↗2017-09-19
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