Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability in NASM 2.14rc0: Illegal Address Access in find_cc() Function

CVE-2017-17819 · MEDIUM Severity

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

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function find_cc() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because pointers associated with skip_white_ calls are not validated.

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