CVE-2019-6291

An issue was discovered in the function expr6 in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02

published January 15, 2019

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in the function expr6 in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02. There is a stack exhaustion problem caused by the expr6 function making recursive calls to itself in certain scenarios involving lots of '!' or '+' or '-' 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
0.01267 · 69.5th percentile
Published
2019-01-15T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 15 JAN 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in the function expr6 in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02
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