Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Affecting virustotal/yara package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-VIRUSTOTALYARA-2319394
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed31 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-5020  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-754  (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 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions. An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the object lookup functionality of Yara 3.8.1. A specially crafted binary file can cause a negative value to be read to satisfy an assert, resulting in Denial of Service. An attacker can create a malicious binary to trigger this vulnerability.

CVSS Scores

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