CVE-2017-17818: Out-of-bounds Read

December 21, 2017 (updated October 3, 2019)

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read that will cause a remote denial of service attack, related to a while loop in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c.

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392428
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17818
usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

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