CVE-2017-17815

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    CVE-2017-17815

    Published: 21 Dec 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in is_mmacro() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because of a missing check for the relationship between minimum and maximum parameter counts.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/, https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436, http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 7a81ead31b40392e9b0dff811ac0d3d4653ccfef
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.14-rc0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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