CVE-2019-5020

First published: Wed Jul 31 2019(Updated: )

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.

Credit: talos-cna@cisco.com

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