CVE-2008-2719

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Off-by-one error in the ppscan function (preproc.c) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.02 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Off-by-one error in the ppscan function (preproc.c) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.02 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 16 years ago

2008-06-16 23:41:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:28:00

Affected Software

NASM Netwide Assembler 2.02

2.02

References

http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git?a=commit;h=76ec8e73db16f4cf1453a142d03bcc74d528f72f

Exploit

30594

Vendor Advisory

32059

MDVSA-2008:120

[oss-security] 20080611 CVE id request: nasm off-by-one

[oss-security] 20080611 Re: CVE id request: nasm off-by-one

29656

1020259

USN-648-1

ADV-2008-1811

nasm-ppscan-bo(42995)

https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=6208&release_id=606115

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=106208&aid=1942146&group_id=6208

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