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Fedora 25: 2017-fa52efdf32 Critical: yara Buffer Over-Read

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest Yara patch for Fedora 25 tackles urgent vulnerabilities, significantly improving threat identification mechanisms.
Security fix for CVE-2017-9304, CVE-2017-9465

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 for CVE-2017-9304, CVE-2017-9465

[ 1 ] Bug #1459490 - CVE-2017-9465 yara: Buffer over-read in yr_arena_write_data function

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1459490

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/

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.6.2
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

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