Package: nasm
Severity: grave
Version: 2.02-1
Tags: security patch

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for nasm.

CVE-2008-2719[0]:
| Off-by-one error in the ppscan function (preproc.c) in Netwide
| Assembler (NASM) 2.02 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a
| denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a
| crafted file that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

Upstream patch: 
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/download.php?group_id=6208&atid=106208&file_id=274609&aid=1942146

Note, the description on the mitre site is not yet online but it will
be the same as the above one.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2719
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-2719

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