Bug 1529319 (CVE-2017-17812)

Summary:	CVE-2017-17812 nasm: Heap-based buffer over-read in detoken function in asm/preproc.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	java-sig-commits, mizdebsk
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-27 15:52:04 UTC

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function detoken() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a denial of service attack.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392424

Upstream patch:

http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/9b7ee09abfd426b99aa1ea81d19a3b2818eeabf9

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-12-27 17:01:22 UTC

Created nasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1529336]