UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17815

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / nasm

Package

Name: nasm
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nasm@2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.10.07-1

2.10.09-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "nasm",
            "binary_version": "2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nasm-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / nasm

Package

Name: nasm
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nasm@2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

2.*

2.11.06-1really2.11.05-1

2.11.08-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "nasm",
            "binary_version": "2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nasm-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}