CVE-2019-6290

Published: Jan 15, 2019Modified: Nov 21, 2024

5.5

Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

Description

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.

Affected (1)

Products: Nasm: Netwide Assembler

1 product

Netwide Assembler

Configuration A

1 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Nasm Netwide Assembler	Up to 2.14.02

Related CWEs

Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

References (2)

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392548

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392548

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

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