Out-of-Bounds Affecting nasm-rdoff package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-NASMRDOFF-1369073
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Dec 2017

Introduced: 21 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (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 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.