CVE-2016-10211: Virustotal Yara

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libyara/grammar.y in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_parser_lookup_loop_variable function.

Affected products

• Virustotal Yara: version 3.5.0 only

Published 2017-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.