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Fedora 26 2017-156d12fa2f Critical: Yara Buffer Overflow Fix

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Calendar Grey July 11, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Discover the Debian 9 security patch targeting severe vulnerabilities to improve cybersecurity analysis frameworks.
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

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 3.6.2
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers

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