Buffer Overflow Affecting virustotal/yara package, versions [,3.5.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIRUSTOTALYARA-2319391
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed31 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 May 2017

CVE-2017-9304  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for virustotal/yara.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow libyara/re.c in the regexp module in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the _yr_re_emit function.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1