CVE-2017-17812: Out-of-bounds Read

December 21, 2017 (updated October 3, 2019)

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

References

repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/9b7ee09abfd426b99aa1ea81d19a3b2818eeabf9
bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392424
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17812
usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

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