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.

Bugs

• <https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392549&gt;

Notes