What is CVE-2017-11328?

CVE-2017-11328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Virustotal Yara, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.

How severe is CVE-2017-11328?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Virustotal Yara

CVE-2017-11328

Heap buffer overflow in the yr_object_array_set_item() function in object.c in YARA 3.x allows a denial-of-service attack by scanning a crafted .NET file.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2017-07-17 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (50.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 50.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Virustotal Yara — versions 3.0.0, 3.1.0, 3.2.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/4a342f01e5439b9bb901aff1c6c23c536baeeb3f (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-11328?: CVE-2017-11328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Virustotal Yara, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2017-07-17.
How severe is CVE-2017-11328?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.