CVE-2019-5020

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5020
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-5020.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-5020
Downstream
Published
2019-07-31T17:15:11Z
Modified
2026-07-08T20:57:35Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the object lookup functionality of Yara 3.8.1. A specially crafted binary file can cause a negative value to be read to satisfy an assert, resulting in Denial of Service. An attacker can create a malicious binary to trigger this vulnerability.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/virustotal/yara

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/virustotal/yara
Events
Introduced
309894830a5f9ff8cc22155d7719ea608de7bc9d
Last Affected
309894830a5f9ff8cc22155d7719ea608de7bc9d
Database specific
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{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:virustotal:yara:3.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.8.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "3.8.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.8.1
v3.*
v3.8.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-5020.json"