CVE-2017-17815: Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Affected products
Published 2017-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.