CVE-2017-17818: Canonical Ubuntu Linux
High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Affected products
Published 2017-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.