CVE-2019-6290

An infinite recursion issue was discovered in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02

published January 15, 2019

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An infinite recursion issue was discovered in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02. There is a stack exhaustion problem resulting from infinite recursion in the functions expr, rexp, bexpr and cexpr in certain scenarios involving lots of '{' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted asm file.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01256 · 69.3th percentile
Published
2019-01-15T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JAN 00:00Z
    An infinite recursion issue was discovered in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02
    cvelistv5