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CVE-2016-10210

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

libyara/lexer.l in YARA 3.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a crafted rule that is mishandled in the yy_get_next_buffer function.

Affected products

• Yara Object: 3.5.0

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98077
• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/3119b232c9c453c98d8fa8b6ae4e37ba18117cd4
• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/576
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98077
• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/3119b232c9c453c98d8fa8b6ae4e37ba18117cd4
• https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/576

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