CVE-2017-17815
low-risk
Published 2017-12-21
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in is_mmacro() in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack, because of a missing check for the relationship between minimum and maximum parameter counts.
Do I need to act?
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0.20% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.5/10
Medium
LOCAL
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (2)
References (6)
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
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/ 100
low-risk
Severity
18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
1/34 · Minimal
Exposure
7/34 · Low