CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-9465
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The yr_arena_write_data function in YARA 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted file that is mishandled in the yr_re_fast_exec function in libyara/re.c and the _yr_scan_match_callback function in libyara/scan.c.
Affected configurations
• virustotal yara 3.6.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/992480c30f75943e9cd6245bb2015c7737f9b661 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/678 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/992480c30f75943e9cd6245bb2015c7737f9b661 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/678 Exploit, Third Party Advisory