CVE-2017-17815

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17815
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17815.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-17815
Downstream
Related
Published
2017-12-21T03:29:00.397Z
Modified
2026-07-08T05:49:35.749411873Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in is_mmacro() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because of a missing check for the relationship between minimum and maximum parameter counts.

Database specific
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm
Events
Database specific
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.14-rc0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.14-rc0"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.14:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.14-rc0
nasm-2.*
nasm-2.14rc0

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17815.json"