In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function paste_tokens() in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will lead to remote denial of service.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201903-19 (NASM: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NASM. Please review the       CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute       arbitrary code.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3694-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that NASM incorrectly handled certain source files. If a user or automated system were     tricked into processing a specially crafted source file, a remote attacker could use these issues to cause     NASM to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the version of the nasm package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an     illegal address access in the function paste_tokens()     in preproc.c, aka a NULL pointer dereference. It will     lead to remote denial of service.(CVE-2017-14228 )

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
123425	GLSA-201903-19 : NASM: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
110805	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : NASM vulnerabilities (USN-3694-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high
104916	EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : nasm (EulerOS-SA-2017-1298)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
104915	EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : nasm (EulerOS-SA-2017-1297)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium

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