Bug 1214753 (CVE-2023-40857)

Summary:	VUL-0: CVE-2023-40857: yara: Buffer Overflow
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE Backports	Reporter:	Stoyan Manolov <stoyan.manolov>
Component:	Packages	Assignee:	Greg Freemyer <Greg.Freemyer>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-Mail List <packagehub-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P3 - Medium	CC:	security-team, stoyan.manolov
Version:	SLE-15-SP5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/376574/
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Security Response Team	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Stoyan Manolov 2023-08-29 15:22:04 UTC

CVE-2023-40857

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in VirusTotal yara v.4.3.2 allows a remote
attacker to execute arbtirary code via the yr_execute_cod function in the exe.c
component.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2023-40857
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2235688
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-40857
https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/1945

Comment 2 Dirk Mueller 2023-09-11 06:53:05 UTC

This CVE has been disputed. see https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/1948#issuecomment-1672869957

can we close this?