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CVE-2017-17819
medium
Description
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function find_cc() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because pointers associated with skip_white_ calls are not validated.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-8970
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392435
http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/7524cfd91492e6e3719b959498be584a9ced13af