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Fedora: FEDORA-2019-c3627a0e Moderate: Python-YARA Update

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Python-YARA Patch for Fedora 30 presents an important bugfix update 3.9.0 that improves malware detection functionalities.
update to the bugfix release 3.9.0

Summary

Python binding for the YARA pattern matching tool.

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 the bugfix release 3.9.0

[ 1 ] Bug #1660398 - CVE-2018-19974 CVE-2018-19975 CVE-2018-19976 yara: Multiple issues [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1660398

[ 2 ] Bug #1680203 - yara-3.9.0 is available

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1680203

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2019-c3627a0e7a' 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 30
Version: 3.9.0
Release: 2.fc30
Summary: Python binding for the YARA pattern matching tool

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