DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6290

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6290

    Published: 15 Jan 2019Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-6290

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6290

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: nasm

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/nasm?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.16.01-1
    2.16.03-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High