Debian Security Advisory
DSA-623-1 nasm -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 04 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- nasm
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 285889.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1287. - More information:
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Jonathan Rockway discovered a buffer overflow in nasm, the general-purpose x86 assembler, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code when compiling a maliciously crafted assembler source file.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.98.28cvs-1woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.98.38-1.1.
We recommend that you upgrade your nasm package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/nasm/nasm_0.98.28cvs-1woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.