CVE-2017-17818 — Out-of-bounds Read in Nasm

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read8 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.7%
top 28.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
NasmDebian NasmCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 21
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | 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-3mqq-qfwx-mfhq: In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-17818: In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2↗2017-12-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
NASM vulnerabilities↗2018-06-28
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Red Hat
nasm: Heap-based buffer over-read in paste_tokens function in asm/preproc.c↗2017-12-21
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Debian
CVE-2017-17818: nasm - In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read that...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17810 CVE-2017-17811 CVE-2017-17812 CVE-2017-17813 CVE-2017-17814 CVE-2017-17815 CVE-2017-17816 CVE-2017-17817 CVE-2017-17818 CVE-2017-17819 CVE-2017-17820 nasm: various flaws [fedora-all]↗2017-12-27
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-17818 nasm: Heap-based buffer over-read in paste_tokens function in asm/preproc.c↗2017-12-27
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