CVE-2017-8294 (GCVE-0-2017-8294)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-04-27 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34
VLAI
Summary
libyara/re.c in the regex component in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_re_exec function.
CWE
  • n/a
References
Date Public
2017-04-27 00:00
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