{"id":"CVE-2016-10210","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2016-10210","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:03:50.392Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2017-04-03T05:59:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:39:18.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-476"],"affected":["virustotal/yara"],"epss":{"score":0.0286,"percentile":0.86657,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98077","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/3119b232c9c453c98d8fa8b6ae4e37ba18117cd4","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/576","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98077","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/commit/3119b232c9c453c98d8fa8b6ae4e37ba18117cd4","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara/issues/576","tags":["Exploit","Issue Tracking","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10210","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}