USN-45-1: nasm vulnerability
22 December 2004
nasm vulnerability
Releases
Details
Jonathan Rockway discovered a locally exploitable buffer overflow in
the error() function of nasm. If an attacker tricked a user into
assembling a malicious source file, they could exploit this to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user that runs nasm.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
Ubuntu 4.10
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nasm
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In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.