CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2019-6291

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.

4.3 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

5.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392549 Exploit Issue Tracking
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:nasm:netwide_assembler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2019-01-15 12:29

Updated : 2020-08-24 05:37

NVD link : CVE-2019-6291

Mitre link : CVE-2019-6291

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-674

Uncontrolled Recursion