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CVE-2017-17812

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-12-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• NASM Netwide Assember: 2.14-rc0

References

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

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