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CVE-2017-17818

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% 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 that will cause a remote denial of service attack, related to a while loop in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c.

Affected products

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

References

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

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