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Fedora 25: FEDORA-2017-926e11c76e Moderate: YARA Security Fixes

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Calendar Grey June 18, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical patch for YARA in Fedora 25 released, resolving several vulnerabilities. Details on the update process provided.
Update to a bugfix release of yara.

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.

Update to a bugfix release of yara.

[ 1 ] Bug #1440739 - CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924 yara: Multiple security issues [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440739

[ 2 ] Bug #1451383 - CVE-2017-8929 yara: Use-after-free in sized_string_cmp function [epel-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451383

[ 3 ] Bug #1451384 - CVE-2017-8929 yara: Use-after-free in sized_string_cmp function [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451384

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

Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.6.0
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

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