CVE-2017-17820: 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 a use-after-free in pp_list_one_macro in asm/preproc.c that will lead to a remote denial of service attack, related to mishandling of operand-type errors.
Affected products
Published 2017-12-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.