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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:45:29.320Z

Reserved: 2019-01-14T00:00:00Z

Link: CVE-2019-6291

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2019-01-15T00:29:00.430

Modified: 2020-08-24T17:37:01.140

Link: CVE-2019-6291

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2019-01-02T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-6291 - Bugzilla