CVE-2018-19975

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In YARA 3.8.1, bytecode in a specially crafted compiled rule can read data from any arbitrary address in memory, in libyara/exec.c. Specifically, OP_COUNT can read a DWORD.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-125

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://bnbdr.github.io/posts/extracheese/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/999Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/bnbdr/swisscheese/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DFFXDAMP6GJ337LIOTVF5I4T6QGMN3ZR/
https://bnbdr.github.io/posts/extracheese/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/999Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/bnbdr/swisscheese/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DFFXDAMP6GJ337LIOTVF5I4T6QGMN3ZR/

Timeline

Published: Dec 17, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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