vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-8294: yara -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 27, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

libyara/re.c in the regex component in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_re_exec function.

Solution

debian-upgrade-yara
Title
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