NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nasm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-NASM-617038
  • published21 Dec 2017
  • disclosed21 Dec 2017

Introduced: 21 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17819  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm package and not the nasm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.