CVE-2017-17815
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.014 · 73 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (3)
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references (11)
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- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436cnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2019.4645/cnnvd
- https://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2019/suse-su-201914246-1.htmlcnnvd
- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3enisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436enisa_euvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/enisa_euvd
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