Oval Definition:
oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2017178180000000
Revision Date
:
2017-12-21
Version
:
1
Title
:
CVE-2017-17818 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description
:
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.
Family
:
unix
Class
:
vulnerability
Status
:
Reference(s)
:
CVE-2017-17818
Platform(s)
:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s)
:
Definition Synopsis
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
AND
nasm package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1').
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