CVE-2017-17818

PoC —

CVSS 3.0

7.5 high

EPSS

3%p85

Published

Dec 21, 2017 (Dec 21, 2017)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Vendors: nasm canonical
Products: netwide assembler, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-125
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.7%)

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