Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nasm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-NASM-336849
  • published15 Jan 2019
  • disclosed15 Jan 2019

Introduced: 15 Jan 2019

CVE-2019-6290  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm package and not the nasm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.