VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-17818

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability2.72%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-12-21
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read that will cause a remote denial of service attack, related to a while loop in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Primary references