CVE-2017-14228: NULL Pointer Dereference

September 9, 2017 (updated March 28, 2019)

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function paste_tokens() in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will lead to remote denial of service.

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392423
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14228
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-19
usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

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