CVE-2017-17818 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392428 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5