# CVE-2017-17819: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2017-12-21 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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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## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392435
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
- http://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/7524cfd91492e6e3719b959498be584a9ced13af

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