Ubuntu Security Notice USN-128-1
17th May, 2005
nasm vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 5.04
- Ubuntu 4.10
Details
Josh Bressers discovered a buffer overflow in the ieee_putascii()
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 version:
- Ubuntu 5.04:
- nasm
- Ubuntu 4.10:
- nasm
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
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