libyara/re.c in the regexp module in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the _yr_re_emit function.

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

  - libyara/re.c in the regexp module in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (stack consumption) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the _yr_re_emit function. (CVE-2017-9304)

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

Security fix for CVE-2017-9304, CVE-2017-9465

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
251282	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2017-9304	Nessus	Misc.	high
101577	Fedora 26 : yara (2017-156d12fa2f)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
101514	Fedora 25 : yara (2017-fa52efdf32)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
101503	Fedora 24 : yara (2017-47487b1223)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-9304

high

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high