CVE-2018-19974

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Dec 17, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Dec 8, 2018

Description

In YARA 3.8.1, bytecode in a specially crafted compiled rule can read uninitialized data from VM scratch memory in libyara/exec.c. This can allow attackers to discover addresses in the real stack (not the YARA virtual stack).

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://bnbdr.github.io/posts/extracheese/
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/999
https://github.com/bnbdr/swisscheese/
FEDORA-2019-a00b4760a0vendor-advisory

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