CVE-2019-6291
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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VIR risk
5.5
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-6291
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201901-16
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2.14.02-1 | |
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | affected | |
| debian | sid | affected | |
| debian | trixie | affected | |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.