Out-of-bounds Read Affecting nasm package, versions [,2.14]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASM-2317951
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17812  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for nasm.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function detoken() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack.

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