Description
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.
Published: 2019-07-31
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-14627 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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T19:40:49.327Z

Reserved: 2019-01-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-5020

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-07-31T17:15:11.387

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:44:12.097

Link: CVE-2019-5020

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