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CVE-2019-6290
CVE-2019-6290
PUBLISHED
CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM
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 1.94% · 78.5th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.0
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score
1.94%
78.5th 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 |
Timeline
- Jan 15, 2019 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jun 23, 2021 EPSS Score
- Aug 25, 2021 EPSS Score
- Dec 28, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Mar 1, 2022 EPSS Score
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- Sep 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Nov 8, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 10, 2023 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