CVE-2017-8294: Virustotal Yara

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

libyara/re.c in the regex component in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yr_re_exec function.

Affected products

• Virustotal Yara: version 3.5.0 only

Published 2017-04-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.