A vulnerability has been identified in NASM, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. This issue is caused by an off-by-one buffer overflow error in the "ppscan()" [preproc.c] function when processing ASM files, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into assembling a specially crafted ASM file.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Philipp Thomas.
ChangeLog
2008-06-11 : Initial release
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