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Fedora 26: 2017-6186f95179 Critical: NASM Heap Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey August 18, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential updates for NASM on Fedora 26 address concerns related to use-after-free vulnerabilities and buffer overflow problems. Prompt intervention is recommended.
Fix use-after-free and heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-10686, CVE-2017-11111)

Summary

NASM is the Netwide Assembler, a free portable assembler for the Intel

80x86 microprocessor series, using primarily the traditional Intel

instruction mnemonics and syntax.

Fix use-after-free and heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2017-10686,

CVE-2017-11111)

[ 1 ] Bug #1472882 - CVE-2017-10686 nasm: Use-after-free in the detoken() function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472882

[ 2 ] Bug #1472884 - CVE-2017-11111 nasm: Heap buffer overflow in the preproc.c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1472884

su -c 'dnf upgrade nasm' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.13.01
Release: 3.fc26
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Summary: A portable x86 assembler which uses Intel-like syntax

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