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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113454
Category:Denial of Service
Title:Yara <= 3.8.1 Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability
Summary:Yara is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
Description:Summary:
Yara is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Vulnerability Insight:
The vulnerability exists within the object lookup functionality.
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.

Vulnerability Impact:
Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to crash the application.

Affected Software/OS:
Yara through version 3.8.1.

Solution:
Update to version 3.9.0.

CVSS Score:
4.3

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2019-5020
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0781
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