A flaw was found in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16. A heap-based buffer over-read in do_directive in asm/preproc.c for the special cases of the % and $ and ! characters. References: https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392525 Upstream Patch: https://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/4b5b737d4991578b1918303dc0fd9c9ab5c7ce4f
Created nasm tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1652042]
Statement: This issue affects the versions of nasm as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is now in Maintenance Support 2 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having a security impact of Low, and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.