NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting nasm package, versions [,2.14]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.42% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASM-2317920
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed9 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Sep 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 nasm.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. 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.

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