medium5.5
CVE-2019-6291
An issue was discovered in the function expr6 in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02.
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Nasm | Netwide Assembler | through 2.14.02 |