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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2019-6291

Remote attackers could leverage this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service via a crafted asm file.

MEDIUM 5.5EPSS 1.27%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.27%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 3.0
5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
1.27% probability · 68th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-674
Affected
nasm/netwide assembler
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.