CVE-2019-6290: Uncontrolled Recursion

January 15, 2019 (updated August 24, 2020)

An infinite recursion issue was discovered in eval.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 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.

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392548
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-6290

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