Out-of-bounds Read Affecting virustotal/yara package, versions [,3.5.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIRUSTOTALYARA-2319393
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed3 Apr 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2017

CVE-2017-5923  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (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 Out-of-bounds Read libyara/grammar.y in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yara_yyparse function.

CVSS Scores

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