#VU16658 Information disclosure in YARA - CVE-2018-19976

 

#VU16658 Information disclosure in YARA - CVE-2018-19976

Published: December 23, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16658
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19976
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
YARA
Software vendor:
VirusTotal

Description

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to the design of the YARA virtual machine. A local attacker can execute a compiled rule file that submits malicious input and read uninitialized data from VM scratch memory in libyara/exec.c.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

External links