CVE-2019-6290 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392548

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5