Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-19975
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2018-19975
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:49:54.147786762Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DFFXDAMP6GJ337LIOTVF5I4T6QGMN3ZR/",
"https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/999",
"https://bnbdr.github.io/posts/extracheese/",
"https://github.com/bnbdr/swisscheese/"
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"published_at": "2018-12-17T19:29:01.437+00:00"
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