DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5020

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    DEBIAN-CVE-2019-5020

    Published: 31 Jul 2019Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-5020

    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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-5020

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: yara

    Purl: pkg:deb/debian/yara?arch=source&distro=bookworm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.9.0-1

    Affected versions

    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