CVE-2019-5020

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    CVE-2019-5020

    Published: 31 Jul 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0781

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 309894830a5f9ff8cc22155d7719ea608de7bc9d
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.8.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2019-5020 | CVE-DB