Bug 1493189 (CVE-2017-14228) - CVE-2017-14228 nasm: NULL pointer dereference in the paste_tokens function
Summary: CVE-2017-14228 nasm: NULL pointer dereference in the paste_tokens function
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-14228
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1493190
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-09-19 14:39 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:22 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:25:38 UTC
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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]
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