CVE-2023-40857

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40857
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40857.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2023-40857
Downstream
Published
2023-08-28T22:15:09.870Z
Modified
2025-11-20T12:19:14.578185Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in VirusTotal yara v.4.3.2 allows a remote attacker to execute arbtirary code via the yrexecutecod function in the exe.c component.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/virustotal/yara

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/virustotal/yara
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
d1ff3ecc465d7ed882943fd1278dd8981b704f02

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.0.0
v2.1.0

v3.*

v3.0.0
v3.1.0
v3.10.0
v3.10.0-rc1
v3.11.0
v3.2.0
v3.3.0
v3.4.0
v3.6.0
v3.7.0
v3.8.0
v3.8.1
v3.9.0

v4.*

v4.0.0
v4.0.0-rc1
v4.0.0-rc2
v4.0.0-rc3
v4.0.1
v4.0.2
v4.1.0
v4.1.0-rc1
v4.1.0-rc2
v4.2.0
v4.2.0-rc1
v4.3.0
v4.3.0-rc1
v4.3.1
v4.3.2

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2023-40857.json"