libyara/lexer.l in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yy_get_next_buffer function.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - libyara/lexer.l in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer     dereference and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yy_get_next_buffer     function. (CVE-2016-10210)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Update to a bugfix release of yara.

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Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
251267	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10210	Nessus	Misc.	high
101721	Fedora 26 : yara (2017-cd57608211)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
101599	Fedora 26 : yara (2017-2e94c7b518)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100971	Fedora 24 : yara (2017-5c55ef46ee)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
100859	Fedora 25 : yara (2017-926e11c76e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
99744	Fedora 24 : yara (2017-9941306740)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
99743	Fedora 25 : yara (2017-11ac1e31eb)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-10210

high

Tenable Plugins

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