CVE-2017-17815 - In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in is_mmacro() in asm/prepro

CVE-2017-17815

Summary

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

Vulnerable Configurations

cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.14:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.14:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*

CVSS

Base:	4.3 (as of 26-03-2019 - 15:44)
Impact:
Exploitability:

CWE

CWE-754

CAPEC

Access

Vector	Complexity	Authentication
NETWORK	MEDIUM	NONE

Impact

Confidentiality	Integrity	Availability
NONE	NONE	PARTIAL

cvss-vector via4

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

refmap via4

misc	http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3 https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436
ubuntu	USN-3694-1

Last major update

26-03-2019 - 15:44

Published

21-12-2017 - 03:29

Last modified

26-03-2019 - 15:44