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CVE-2019-6290
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2019-01-15T00:29:00.383 · Last modified 2026-06-17T02:38:57.670

Summary

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.

Affected products

nasm — netwide_assembler

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