Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting nasm package, versions <2.13.02-0.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.2% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-NASM-11761395
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed21 Dec 2017

Introduced: 21 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17815  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 nasm to version 2.13.02-0.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm package and not the nasm package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 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.