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

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Calendar Grey July 28, 2017
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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
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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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