USN-8080-1: YARA vulnerabilities

Kamil Frankowicz discovered that a number of YARA's functions generated memory exceptions when processing specially crafted rules or files. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service. These issues only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...

Fedora 24 : yara (2017-5c55ef46ee)

Update to a bugfix release of yara. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL...

CVE-2017-8929

CVE-2017-8929 affects YARA 3.5.0. The vulnerability resides in the function in libyara/sizedstr.c: sized_string_cmp, which can be triggered by a crafted rule to cause a use-after-free and application crash, enabling a remote denial of service. The connected documents provide this description and ...