DSA-623-1 nasm -- buffer overflow

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:

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

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.