What is CVE-2019-6291?

CVE-2019-6291 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-2019-6291?

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

Is CVE-2019-6291 known to be exploited?

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

Vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler

CVE-2019-6291

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.

EPSS: 0.013 (66.9th 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-2019-6291?: CVE-2019-6291 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-2019-6291?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2019-6291 known to be exploited?: 8 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.