What is CVE-2019-6290?

CVE-2019-6290 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2019-6290?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2019-6290 known to be exploited?

9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler

CVE-2019-6290

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: 0.013 (66.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Nasm Netwide_assembler
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-6290?: CVE-2019-6290 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler, classified under Uncontrolled Recursion. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2019-6290?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-6290 known to be exploited?: 9 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.