CVE-2017-17812 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/9b7ee09abfd426b99aa1ea81d19a3b2818eeabf9 https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392424 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5