CVE-2016-10211

HIGH 7.5CVE-2016-10211 · Published 03/04/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2016-10211 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting yara (virustotal).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.6% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
yara virustotal	`= 3.5.0`	No fix yet

Description

libyara/grammar.y in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_parser_lookup_loop_variable function.

References

securityfocus.com/bid/98078
VirusTotal/yara commit 890c3f8 · Patch
VirusTotal/yara · Exploit

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

yara

virustotal

= 3.5.0

No fix yet

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