CVE-2017-17811: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 21, 2017 (updated March 26, 2019)

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) rc0, there is a heap-based buffer overflow that will cause a remote denial of service attack, related to a strcpy in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c, a similar issue to CVE-2017-11111.

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392432
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17811
usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

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