Vulnerability CVE-2018-19974
Published: 2018-12-17

Description:
In YARA 3.8.1, bytecode in a specially crafted compiled rule can read uninitialized data from VM scratch memory in libyara/exec.c. This can allow attackers to discover addresses in the real stack (not the YARA virtual stack).

Type:

CWE-200

 (Information Exposure)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Virustotal -> YARA 

 References:
https://bnbdr.github.io/posts/extracheese/
https://github.com/bnbdr/swisscheese/
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/999
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DFFXDAMP6GJ337LIOTVF5I4T6QGMN3ZR/
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