CVE-2019-6291

nasm: Recursive calls in the function expr resulting in a denial of service

Published Jan 15, 2019 CVSS 3.0 · 5.5 Medium EPSS 1.2% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-15856 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 11:45 PM
Reserved
Jan 14, 2019, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jan 15, 2019, 12:29 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:38 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
Jan 2, 2019, 12:00 AM