Medium severity5.5OSV Advisory· Published Jan 15, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2019-6291
CVE-2019-6291
Description
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
2- Range: <=2.14.02
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1- bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
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