Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20196290000
Revision Date:2019-01-14Version:1
Title:CVE-2019-6290 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - negligible.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2019-6290
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND The 'nasm' package in xenial is affected, but a decision has been made to defer addressing it (note: '2019-04-25').
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