CVE-2017-14228: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function paste_tokens() in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will lead to remote denial of service.

Affected products

  • Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only
  • Nasm Netwide Assembler: version 2.14 only

Published 2017-09-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.