| 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, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, 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) | bullseye | 2.15.05-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.16.01-1 | fixed |
| trixie, sid | 2.16.03-1 | 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