What is CVE-2017-8294?

CVE-2017-8294 is a high-severity vulnerability in Virustotal Yara, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-04-27.

How severe is CVE-2017-8294?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Out-of-bounds Read in Virustotal Yara

CVE-2017-8294

libyara/re.c in the regex component in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_re_exec function.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.030 (86.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Virustotal Yara — versions 3.5.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read

References

cve@mitre.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-8294?: CVE-2017-8294 is a high-severity vulnerability in Virustotal Yara, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-04-27.
How severe is CVE-2017-8294?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.