NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting nasm-rdoff package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NASMRDOFF-1365527
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Aug 2017

Introduced: 28 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-14228  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 nasm-rdoff.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm-rdoff package and not the nasm-rdoff package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function paste_tokens() in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will lead to remote denial of service.