CVE-2017-17812

medium

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.

References

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-8963

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392424

http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/9b7ee09abfd426b99aa1ea81d19a3b2818eeabf9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-12-21

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H