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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88341

A reachable assertion vulnerability exists in YARA 4.5.8 when loading crafted .yrc compiled rule files. An attacker can provide a malicious file with...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A reachable assertion vulnerability exists in YARA 4.5.8 when loading crafted .yrc compiled rule files. An attacker can provide a malicious file with an invalid arena configuration (num_buffers=0) that triggers an assertion failure in yr_arena_get_ptr(), causing the application to terminate.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 yara

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 yara

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 yara

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org