Bug 1493189 (CVE-2017-14228)

Summary:	CVE-2017-14228 nasm: NULL pointer dereference in the paste_tokens function
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-09-19 14:39:36 UTC

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function paste_tokens() in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will lead to a denial of service.

Upstream issue:

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392423

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-09-19 14:40:38 UTC

Created nasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1493190]