USN-648-1: nasm vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 8.04

Packages

• nasm -

Details

Philipp Thomas discovered that the ppscan function of nasm contained
an off-by-one error. If a user or automated system were tricked into
assembling a specially crafted ASM file, a remote attacker could execute
arbitrary commands with user privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 8.04

• nasm - 0.99.06-2ubuntu0.1

In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2008-2719