USN-8080-1

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    USN-8080-1

    Published: 9 Mar 2026Last Modified: 25 Jun 2026

    Summary: yara vulnerabilities

    Details: Kamil Frankowicz discovered that a number of YARA's functions generated memory exceptions when processing specially crafted rules or files. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service. These issues only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2016-10211, CVE-2017-5923, CVE-2017-5924, CVE-2017-8294, CVE-2017-8929, CVE-2017-9304, CVE-2017-9438, CVE-2017-9465) Jurriaan Bremer discovered that YARA's yr_object_array_set_limit() function could result in a heap buffer overflow when scanning specially crafted .NET files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. (CVE-2017-11328) It was discovered that YARA's yr_execute_code() function could cause an out-of-bounds read or write when parsing specially crafted compiled rule files. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service. These issues only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-12034, CVE-2018-12035) It was discovered that YARA's virtual machine could be escaped in certain instances. A remote attacker could possibly use these issues to execute arbitrary code. These issues only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2018-19974, CVE-2018-19975, CVE-2018-19976) It was discovered that YARA's macho_parse_file() function would generate an out-of-bounds memory access error when parsing a specially crafted Mach-O file. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-19648) It was discovered that YARA's macho.c implementation contained several overflow reads, which could be triggered when parsing specially crafted Mach-O files. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or to learn sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-3402) It was discovered that YARA's yr_set_configuration() function could trigger a buffer overflow when parsing specially crafted rules. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause YARA to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-45429)

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: yara

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/yara?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fxenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -3.4.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    3.4.0+dfsg-2
    3.4.0+dfsg-2build1

    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