CVE-2019-6291

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 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.

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=3392549

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392549

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

ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

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