vulnerability

Arch Linux: Denial of service (CVE-2019-6291)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jan 15, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest
Title
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