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Debian: DLA-1041-1 Moderate: NASM Heap Corruption Issue

debian lts
Calendar Grey July 28, 2017
Dist Debian Esm H88
Crucial security patch for nasm in Debian LTS resolves several vulnerabilities, encompassing threats of remote execution.
CVE-2017-10686 In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there are multiple heap use after free vulnerabilities in the tool nasm

Summary

CVE-2017-11111
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, preproc.c allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer
overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified
other impact via a crafted file.


For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
2.10.01-1+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your nasm packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: nasm
Version: 2.10.01-1+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-10686 CVE-2017-11111

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