Uncontrolled Recursion
CVE-2019-6290
Summary
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.
- LOW
- LOCAL
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- REQUIRED
- NONE
- NONE
- HIGH
CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published