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CVE-2019-6291

N/A
Published: January 15, 2019 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:38 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNetwide Assembler

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Netwide Assembler· Nasm
95%
v ≤ 2.14.02

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

x_refsource_MISCExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392549

CVSS

4.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-674

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