* Tue Aug 09 2022 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 4.2.3:
* BUGFIX: Fix security issue that can lead to arbitrary code execution
(b77e4f4, b77e4f4). Thanks to ANSSI - CERT-FR for the report.
* BUGFIX: Fix incorrect logic in expressions like <quantifier> of
<string_set> in (start..end (#1757).
* Mon Jul 11 2022 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 4.2.2:
* BUGFIX: Fix buffer overrun en "dex" module
* BUGFIX: Wrong offset used when checking Version string of .net metadata
* BUGFIX: YARA doesn't compile if --with-debug-verbose flag is enabled
* BUGFIX: Null-pointer dereferences while loading corrupted compiled rules
* Implement the --skip-larger command-line option in Windows.
* BUGFIX: Error while scanning process memory in Linux (#1662). Thanks to @hillu.
* BUGFIX: Issue in "magic" module leading to wrong matches
* BUGFIX: Multiple issues triggered in low-memory conditions (#1671, #1673, #1674, #1675). Reported by @1ndahous3.
* BUGFIX: Incorrect parsing of character classes in some regular expressions (#1690). Reported by @Sevaarcen.
* BUGFIX: Heap overflow in ARM. Reported by @briangreenery.
* New syntax for counting string occurrences within a range of offsets. Example: #a in
* New syntax for checking if a set of strings are found within a range of offsets all of them in
* of operator now accepts sets of rules, Examples: 2 of (rule1, rule2, rule3), 2 of (rule*)
* New syntactic sugar allows writing 0 of
* New operator % for string sets. Example: 20% of them
* New operator defined
* New operator iequals
* Added functions abs, count, percentage and mode to math module
* The dotnet module is now built into YARA by default.
* Added the is_dotnet field to dotnet module
* Added new console module
* Added support of delayed imports to pe module
* Reduce memory pressure when scanning process memory in Linux
* Improve performance while matching certain hex strings
* Implement support for unicode file names in Windows
* Add new API functions yr_get_configuration_uintXX and yr_set_configuration_uintXX
* Add --max-process-memory-chunk option for controlling the size of the chunks while scanning a process memory
* Add --skip-larger option for skipping files larger than a certain size while scanning directories.
* Improve scanning performance with better atom extraction
* BUGFIX: fullword modifier not working properly under all locales
* BUGFIX: Fix edge case when files have a numeric name that was interpreted as a PID number
* BUGFIX: Fix memory leaks in magic module.
* BUGFIX: Fix integer overflow while scanning files larger than 2GB
Version: 4.1.3-bp154.1.22
* Fri Nov 05 2021 Arjen de Korte <suse+build@de-korte.org>
- update to 4.1.3:
* BUGFIX: Fix issue where ERROR_TOO_MANY_MATCHES was incorrectly returned
* BUGFIX: Fix potential buffer overrun due to incorrect macro
- Change license to BSD-3-Clause (upstream changed to this license with
version 3.5.0)
* Sat Oct 16 2021 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 4.1.2:
* BUGFIX: TOO_MANY_MATCHES warning was causing strings to be globally disabled
* BUGFIX: fullworld modifier not working as expected in Mac OS due to locale issue
* BUGFIX: Default value for pe.number_of_imported_function not set to 0
* Sat May 29 2021 Ferdinand Thiessen <rpm@fthiessen.de>
- Update to version 4.1.1
* BUGFIX: Accept the "+" character as valid in DLL names
* BUGFIX: Buffer overrun in "macho" module.
* BUGFIX: Crash due to consecutive jumps in hex strings
* Thu May 06 2021 Ferdinand Thiessen <rpm@fthiessen.de>
- Update to version 4.1.0
* New operators icontains, endswith, iendswith, startswith,
istartswith
* Accept \t escape sequence in text strings.
* Add --no-follow-links command-line option to yara.
* Prevent yara from following links to "."
* Implemented non-blocking scanning API
* When a string causes too many matches, YARA raises a warning
instead of failing
* BUGFIX: The use of --timeout could hang yara when scanning
directories or lists of files
* BUGFIX: Incorrect parsing of PE certificates
* BUGFIX: Short-circuit evaluation not working fine with
undefined expressions
- Drop yara-fix-arm.patch, upstream merged
* Mon Feb 08 2021 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 4.0.5:
* Fix bug in "macho" module introduced in v4.0.4.
* Fri Jan 29 2021 Dirk Müller <dmueller@suse.com>
- update to 4.0.4:
* Multiple out-of-bounds read in "dotnet" module.
* Multiple out-of-bounds reads in "macho" module.
* Tue Sep 15 2020 Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
- Backport upstream patch to fix a segfault on ARM:
* yara-fix-arm.patch
* Mon Aug 17 2020 Dirk Mueller <dmueller@suse.com>
- Update to 4.0.2:
- BUGFIX: Use-after-free bug in PE module (#1287).
- BUGFIX: Incorrect errors in rules when a single rule is badly
formatted (#1294).
- BUGFIX: Assertion failed with rules that have invalid syntax
(#1295).
- BUGFIX: Integer overflow causing missed matches on files larger
than 2GB (#1304).
- BUGFIX: Crashes in Mac OS while scanning binaries with a
signature that can't be verified (#1309).
- Update to 4.0.1:
- Update sandboxed API (#1276)
- BUGFIX: Fix regression in exports parsing in PE module
(2bf67e6)
- BUGFIX: Fix unaligned accesses in ARM (e1654ae)
- Update to 4.0.0:
- New string modifiers base64 and base64wide (#1185).
- New string modifier private (#1096)
- Iterators for dictionaries and arrays (#1141).
- Multiple API changes.
- Memory footprint greatly reduced, specially when compiling
large numbers of rules.
- New commmand-line option --scan-list (#1261).
- Added pdb_path field to "pe" module.
- Added export_details array to "pe" module.
- Added exports_index functions to "pe" module.
- Improvements to "cuckoo" module.
- BUGFIX: PE files with multiple signatures are parsed correctly
(#940).
- BUGFIX: Fix PE rich header parsing (#1164).
- BUGFIX: Buffer overruns in "dotnet" module (#1167, #1173).
- Bump .so version
- Update to 3.11.0:
- Duplicated string modifiers are now an error.
- More flexible “xor” modifier.
- Implement “private” strings (#1096)
- Add “field_offsets” to “dotnet” module.
- Implement “crc32” functions in “hash” module.
- Improvements to “rich_signature” functions in “pe” module.
- Implement sandboxed API using SAPI
- BUGFIX: Some regexp character classes not matching correctly
when used with “nocase” modifier (#1117)
- BUGFIX: Reduce the number of ERROR_TOO_MANY_RE_FIBERS errors
for certain hex pattern containing large jumps (#1107)
- BUGFIX: Buffer overrun in “dotnet” module (#1108)
- BUGFIX: Segfault in certain Windows versions (#1068)
- BUGFIX: Memory leak while attaching to a process fails (#1070)
- Update to 3.10.0:
- Optimize integer range loops by exiting earlier when possible.
- Cache the result of PE module’s imphash function in order to
improve performance.
- Harden virtual machine against malicious code.
- BUGFIX: “xor” modifier not working as expected if not
accompanied by “ascii” (#1053).
- BUGFIX: \s and \S character classes in regular expressions now
include vertical tab, new line, carriage return and form feed
characters.
- BUGFIX: Regression bug in hex strings containing wildcards
(#1025).
- BUGFIX: Buffer overrun in “elf” module.
- BUGFIX: Buffer overrun in “dotnet” module.
- Update to 3.9.0:
- Improve scan performance for certain strings.
- Reduce stack usage.
- Prevent inadvertent use of compiled rules by forcing the use of
- C when using yara command-line tool.
- BUGFIX: Buffer overflow in "dotnet" module.
- BUGFIX: Internal error when running multiple instances of YARA
in Mac OS X. (#945)
- BUGFIX: Regexp regression when using nested quantifiers {x,y}
for certain values of x and y. (#1018)
- BUGFIX: High RAM consumption in "pe" module while parsing
certain files.(0c8b461)
- BUGFIX: Denial of service when using "dex" module. Found by the
Cisco Talos team. (#1023)
- BUGFIX: Issues with comments inside hex strings.
- Update to 3.8.1:
- BUGFIX: Some combinations of boolean command-line flags were
broken in version 3.8.0.
- BUGFIX: While reporting errors that occur at the end of the
file, the file name appeared as null.
- BUGFIX: dex module now works in big-endian architectures.
- BUGFIX: Keep ABI compatibility by keeping deprecated functions
visible.
- Update to 3.8.0:
- Scanner API
- New “xor” modifier for strings
- New fields and functions in PE module.
- Add functions “min” and “max” to math module.
- Make compiled.
- yara and yaracsupport reading rules from stdin by using - as
the file name.
- Rule compilation is faster.
- BUGFIX: Regression in regex engine. /ba{3}b/ was matching
“baaaab”.
- BUGFIX: Function yr_compiler_add_fd() was reading only the
first 1024 bytes of the file.
- BUGFIX: Wrong calculation of sha256 hashes in Windows when
using native crypto API.
- Lots of more bug fixes.
Version: 3.6.1-bp150.2.4
* Tue Jun 06 2017 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- update to v3.6.1
* BUGFIX: Stack overflow caused by uncontrolled recursiveness (CVE-2017-9304)
* BUGFIX: pe.overlay.size was undefined if the PE didn't have an overlay. Now it's set to 0 in those cases.
* BUGFIX: Fix initalization issue that could cause a crash if rules compiled with a 32bit yarac is used with a 64bit yara.
- update to v3.6.0
* .NET module (Wesley Shields)
* New features for ELF module (Jacob Baines)
* Fix endianness issues (Hilko Bengen)
* Function yr_compiler_add_fd added to libyara
* MAX_THREADS limit can be arbitrarily increased (Emerson R. Wiley)
* Added --fail-on-warnings command-line option
* Multiple bug fixes:
CVE-2016-10210, CVE-2016-10211, CVE-2017-5923, CVE-2017-5924,
CVE-2017-8294, CVE-2017-8929, CVE-2017-9438
* Sat Nov 12 2016 jengelh@inai.de
- Add pkg-config to ensure .pc autodetection is always in effect
* Fri Sep 30 2016 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- update to v3.5.0
* Match length operator (http://yara.readthedocs.io/en/v3.5.0/writingrules.html#match-length)
* Performance improvements
* Less memory consumption while scanning processes
* Exception handling when scanning memory blocks
* Negative integers in meta fields
* Added the --stack-size command-argument
* Functions import_ordinal, is_dll, is_32bit and is_64bit added to PE module
* Functions rich_signature.toolid and rich_signature.version added to PE module
* Lots of bug fixes
- upstream moved python-yara into a separate project. Do the same.
- python-plaso now requires python-yana >= v3.5.0
- add BuildRequires: pkg-config as documented in the openSUSE packaging guidelines
* Thu Jul 23 2015 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- add yara.pc to the libyara subpackage
- remove sed command previously needed to properly link Yara and libyara. No longer needed with latest upstream source.
- update to v3.4.0
* Short-circuit evaluation for conditions
* New yr_rules_save_stream/yr_rules_load_stream APIs.
* load() and save() methods in yara-python accept file-like objects
* Improvements to the PE and ELF modules
* Some performance improvements
* New command-line option --print-module-data
* Multiple bug fixes.
- v3.3.0
* Added support for negative integers and floating point numbers
* Implemented operators >,<, >=, <= for strings
* Implemented word boundary anchors (\b, \B) in regular expressions
* New features in PE module
* Math module
* New --print-namespace command line argument
* Better error handling in low memory conditions
* BUGFIX: "at" operator not working with certain strings containing wildcards
* BUGFIX: precedence of bitwise operators was incorrect
* BUGFIX: incorrect imphash result for certain PE files importing functions by ordinal
* BUGFIX: handle and memory leaks
* BUGFIX: multiple segfaults
- v3.2.0
* ELF module
* Hash module
* New features in PE module
* Big-endian version of intXX and uintXX functions
* Modules can declare dictionary objects
* Modules accept overloaded functions
* Performance improvements
* BUGFIX: "and" operator not working properly with integer operands
* BUGFIX: False positive with strings declared as "fullword wide ascii"
* BUGFIX: False positive with "wide fullword" strings shorter than 5 bytes
* BUGFIX: Functions declared in a structure array not working properly
* BUGFIX: "contains" operator causing segfault if operand is an undefined string
* Fri Sep 26 2014 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- split off a -doc sub-project
* Wed Sep 24 2014 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- update to v3.1.0
* Yara now supports plugin modules
* Numerous major improvements. See README.md in the documentation folder for details
- update License to Apache 2.0
- build with cuckoo and magic modules (cuckoo only for factory and newer)
- major specfile cleanup
* add soname as a variable and use it appropriately
* add /usr/bin/yarac and associated man file
* update Url and Source fields
* add libtool build requirement
* delete no longer needed patch, now upstream: yara-fixes.patch
* add ./bootstrap.sh call to %build section as recommended by upstream
* add +%{_includedir}/yara to -devel since it is full of yara related header files
* use default naming for devel sub-project
* remove *.a and *.la files from the devel sub-project
* incorporate python-yara as a sub-project
* Wed Feb 15 2012 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- Release should have a value of zero in OBS. It is handled automatically via OBS.
* Mon Feb 13 2012 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- use %{__make} macro
* Thu Feb 09 2012 meissner@suse.com
- built with default compile flags, fixed 2 small issues
* Tue Feb 07 2012 Greg.Freemyer@gmail.com
- Initial submission
A malware identification and classification tool