Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-17815
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 42.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.5
CVSS v2 Score 4.3
References
- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
Products affected by CVE-2017-17815
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cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.14
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cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04