USN-128-1: nasm vulnerability

Releases

• 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 versions:

Ubuntu 5.04

• nasm -

Ubuntu 4.10

• nasm -

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2005-1194