SB2021012810 - Denial of service in YARA

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the dotnet module in macho_handle_segment_64(). A remote attacker can create a specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the macho module in macho_parse_file(). A remote attacker can create a specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

3) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: N/A)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow within the macho_parse_fat_file() function in the macho module. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted file to the application, trigger integer overflow and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/releases/tag/v4.0.4
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2021-001-yara/