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CVE-2017-17810

Date: December 20, 2017

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a "SEGV on unknown address" that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because asm/preproc.c mishandles macro calls that have the wrong number of arguments.

Language: C

Severity Score

5.5

Related Resources (8)

Url: http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/59ce1c67b16967c652765e62aa130b7e43f21dd4

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-17810

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17810

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-17810

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-17810

Url: https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392431

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2017-17810

Severity Score

5.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	5.5
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	REQUIRED
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	4.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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