Security Advisory

CVE-2019-6291

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-01-15 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-09-16 23:45:29
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.