CVE-2017-11328

medium

Published 2017-07-17 · Modified 2026-05-13

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

Heap buffer overflow in the yr_object_array_set_item() function in object.c in YARA 3.x allows a denial-of-service attack by scanning a crafted .NET file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.6.3+dfsg-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.6.3+dfsg-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`3.6.3+dfsg-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.6.3+dfsg-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.6.3+dfsg-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
virustotal	yara	`3.0.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.1.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.2.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.3.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.4.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.5.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.6.0`
virustotal	yara	`3.6.1`
virustotal	yara	`3.6.2`
virustotal	yara	`3.6.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.