CVE-2017-17815

Name	CVE-2017-17815
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
nasm (PTS)	buster	2.14-1	fixed
	bullseye	2.15.05-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2.16.01-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
nasm	source	(unstable)	2.13.02-0.1

Notes

[stretch] - nasm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - nasm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - nasm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm/commit/c9244eaadd05b27637cde06021bac3fa1d920aa3 (nasm-2.13.02rc3)
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392436