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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2017-83ccfea1c9
2017-06-17 19:40:09.150573
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Name : yara
Product : Fedora EPEL 7
Version : 3.6.0
Release : 1.el7
URL :
http://VirusTotal.github.io/yara/
Summary : Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers
Description :
YARA is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to
identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions
of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or
binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strings
and a Boolean expression which determine its logic.
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Update Information:
Update to a bugfix release of yara.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1440739 - CVE-2016-10210 CVE-2016-10211 CVE-2017-5923 CVE-2017-5924 yara:
Multiple security issues [epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1440739
[ 2 ] Bug #1451383 - CVE-2017-8929 yara: Use-after-free in sized_string_cmp function
[epel-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451383
[ 3 ] Bug #1451384 - CVE-2017-8929 yara: Use-after-free in sized_string_cmp function
[fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1451384
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update yara' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "YUM", available at
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/...
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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