Out-of-Bounds Affecting nasm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-NASM-1985142
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Dec 2017

Introduced: 21 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17815  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 nasm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm package and not the nasm package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.