CVE-2017-11111

Publication date 8 July 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nasm	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Fixed 2.13.01-2ubuntu0.1
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
nasm	Upstream: f9ec5bb

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3694-1
NASM vulnerabilities
28 June 2018

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-11111