UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6291
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Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6291, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6291
Affected packages
Package
Name: nasm
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nasm?arch=source&distro=xenial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
2.11.06-1really2.11.05-1
2.11.08-1
2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
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Integrity
None
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Availability
None
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High
