CVE-2017-17819
mediumpriority · track · 22EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function find_cc() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because pointers associated with skip_white_ calls are not validated.
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affected products (3)
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references (11)
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- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/7524cfd91492e6e3719b959498be584a9ced13afcnnvd
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392435cnnvd
- 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/7524cfd91492e6e3719b959498be584a9ced13afenisa_euvd
- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392435enisa_euvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/enisa_euvd
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