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CVE-2019-5020
medium
Description
An exploitable denial of service vulnerability exists in the object lookup functionality of Yara 3.8.1. A specially crafted binary file can cause a negative value to be read to satisfy an assert, resulting in Denial of Service. An attacker can create a malicious binary to trigger this vulnerability.
References
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2019-0781