CVE-2017-9438

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 (involving hex strings) that is mishandled in the _yr_re_emit function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-9304.

Score

CVSS 3.0 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-06-05

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-674

Affected products

• Yara (Virustotal)

References

• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/10e8bd3071677dd1fa76beeef4bc2fc427cea5e7
• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/674
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FKNXSH5ERG6NELTXCYVJLU…
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XXM224OLGI6KAOROLDPPGG…