CVE-2017-17819

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    CVE-2017-17819

    Published: 21 Dec 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/, https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392435, http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/7524cfd91492e6e3719b959498be584a9ced13af

    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
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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