CVE-2008-2719

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-04-14
CWE:
CWE-193
Bugzilla:
451995: CVE-2008-2719 nasm: off-by-one error in the ppscan function

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Off-by-one error in the ppscan function (preproc.c) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.02 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2719 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. These issues did not affect the versions of NASM as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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