Exposure of Environment Information in YARA 3.8.1 Virtual Machine

Exposure of Environment Information in YARA 3.8.1 Virtual Machine

CVE-2018-19976 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:M/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

In YARA 3.8.1, bytecode in a specially crafted compiled rule is exposed to information about its environment, in libyara/exec.c. This is a consequence of the design of the YARA virtual machine.

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