CVE-2018-19974

MEDIUM5.5EPSS 0.25%
Published: 12/17/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19974

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).

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1MEDIUM5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References (1)