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CVE-2019-6290
CVE-2019-6290
PUBLISHED
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.
EPSS 0.18% · 38.8th percentile
Risk Scores
EPSS Score
0.18%
38.8th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:22.04:LTS | nasm | 2.15.05-1, 0 |
| Ubuntu:20.04:LTS | nasm | 0, 2.14.02-1 |
| Ubuntu:25.10 | nasm | 2.16.03-1, 0 |
| Ubuntu:18.04:LTS | nasm | 2.13.01-2, 0, 2.13.02-0.1 |
| Ubuntu:16.04:LTS | nasm | 2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1, 2.11.06-1really2.11.05-1, 0 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | nasm | 0, 2.16.01-1, 2.16.01-1build1 |
Exploit Intelligence
Timeline
- Jan 15, 2019 CVE Published
- Aug 24, 2020 CVE Updated
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 24, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 27, 2021 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 28, 2022 EPSS Score
- May 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 3, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 4, 2022 EPSS Score
References
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-6290 third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-6290 third-party-advisory