PT-2019-17408 · Yara · Yara

Published 2019-07-31 · Updated 2022-06-13 · CVE-2019-5020

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Yara version 3.8.1

Description A denial of service issue exists in the object lookup functionality. It can be triggered by a specially crafted binary file, causing a negative value to be read, which results in a denial of service. An attacker can create a malicious binary to exploit this issue.

Recommendations For Yara version 3.8.1, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Improper Check for Exceptional Conditions

Assertion Failure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-754

CWE-617

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-5020

Affected Products

Yara

References · 5

• 🔥 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0781 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5020 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5020 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5020 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5020 · Vendor Advisory