CVE-2017-9465

7.1 highEPSS 1.2%

High (7.1) in virustotal yara. EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The yr_arena_write_data function in YARA 3.6.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) or obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted file that is mishandled in the yr_re_fast_exec function in libyara/re.c and the _yr_scan_match_callback function in libyara/scan.c.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.1 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 67% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-125
Published: 2017-06-06
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

virustotal:yara

References

https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/992480c30f75943e9cd6245bb2015c7737f9b661
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/678
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/992480c30f75943e9cd6245bb2015c7737f9b661
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/678

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