CVE-2018-12035 — Out-of-bounds Write in Yara

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
0.2%
top 60.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Virustotal Yara
Timeline
PublishedJun 15
Latest updateMar 9

Description

In YARA 3.7.1 and prior, parsing a specially crafted compiled rule file can cause an out of bounds write vulnerability in yr_execute_code in libyara/exec.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianvirustotal/yara< 3.7.1-3+3
▶Ubuntuvirustotal/yara< 3.4.0+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1+2
▶NVDvirustotal/yara3.7.1

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
OSV
yara vulnerabilities↗2026-03-09
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GHSA
GHSA-f8gv-jwf8-mm4p: In YARA 3↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-12035: In YARA 3↗2018-06-15
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CVEList
CVE-2018-12035: In YARA 3↗2018-06-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
YARA vulnerabilities↗2026-03-09
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Debian
CVE-2018-12035: yara - In YARA 3.7.1 and prior, parsing a specially crafted compiled rule file can caus...↗2018
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12035 yara: out of bounds write in yr_execute_code in libyara/exec.c↗2018-06-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12035 yara: out of bounds write in yr_execute_code in libyara/exec.c [fedora-all]↗2018-06-15
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12035 yara: out of bounds write in yr_execute_code in libyara/exec.c [epel-all]↗2018-06-15
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