Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02

Stack Exhaustion Vulnerability in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02

CVE-2019-6290 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

An infinite recursion issue was discovered in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14.02. There is a stack exhaustion problem resulting from infinite recursion in the functions expr, rexp, bexpr and cexpr in certain scenarios involving lots of '{' characters. Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted asm file.

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