This page tracks the Debian fix status. The vulnerability itself is described on the main CVE page. View CVE-2019-5020 →

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5020

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the object lookup functionality of Yara 3.8.1. A specially crafted binary file can cause a ne...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the object lookup functionality of Yara 3.8.1. 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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 yara

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.9.0-1"}]}]

Debian:13 yara

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.9.0-1"}]}]

Debian:14 yara

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"3.9.0-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org