Vulnerabilities > CVE-2017-5924 - Use After Free vulnerability in Virustotal Yara 3.5.0

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
virustotal
CWE-416
nessus

Summary

libyara/grammar.y in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_compiler_destroy function.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Virustotal
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Nessus

  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-9941306740.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924 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.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-05-01
    plugin id99744
    published2017-05-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99744
    titleFedora 24 : yara (2017-9941306740)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-2E94C7B518.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924 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.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-07-17
    plugin id101599
    published2017-07-17
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/101599
    titleFedora 26 : yara (2017-2e94c7b518)
  • NASL familyFedora Local Security Checks
    NASL idFEDORA_2017-11AC1E31EB.NASL
    descriptionSecurity fix CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924 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.
    last seen2020-06-05
    modified2017-05-01
    plugin id99743
    published2017-05-01
    reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.
    sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/99743
    titleFedora 25 : yara (2017-11ac1e31eb)