CVE-2017-17819

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.

Weakness classification

• CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

Primary references

• cve@mitre.org — Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Tool Signature, Vendor Advisory
• cve@mitre.org — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Issue Tracking, Tool Signature, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory