Out-of-bounds Read Affecting nasm package, versions [0,2.13.02)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASM-2317953
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed21 Dec 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-17818  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nasm to version 2.13.02 or higher.

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 that will cause a remote denial of service attack, related to a while loop in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c.

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