Heap-Based Buffer Over-Read Vulnerability in NASM 2.14rc0 Leading to Remote Denial of Service

CVE-2017-17818 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, 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.

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