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Fedora 24: 2017-9941306740 Critical YARA Malware Update

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Calendar Grey April 29, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The recent YARA tool enhancement for Fedora 24 tackles severe malware vulnerabilities, introducing fortified security protocols designed for improved protection.
Security fix CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924

Summary

YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to

identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions

of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or

binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings

and a Boolean expression which determine its logic.

Security fix CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924

[ 1 ] Bug #1440738 - CVE-2017-8294 CVE-2017-5924 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 yara: Multiple security issues

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440738

su -c 'dnf upgrade yara' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 24
Version: 3.5.0
Release: 7.fc24
Summary: Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

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