Security advisory

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  "id": "037084ad79211f7cab4d71bb6954d2a129e7bd81f3212b61877f03f7e33173ce",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-17816",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-17816",
    "summary": "In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a use-after-free in pp_getline in asm/preproc.c that will cause a remote denial of service attack.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-17816",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-17816",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-17816"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "7a81ead31b40392e9b0dff811ac0d3d4653ccfef"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "7a81ead31b40392e9b0dff811ac0d3d4653ccfef"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:2.14:rc0:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.14-rc0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.14-rc0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.14-rc0",
            "nasm-2.14rc0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-17816.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.767372720Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/",
        "https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392426"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-17816",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430559,
  "published_at": "2017-12-21T03:29:00.443+00:00"
}