Pkgsrc changes:
* adapt PLIST
* remove patch which no longer applies
* apply patches for proper value domain for isxxxx() functions/macros
Upstream changes:
* time module (Wesley Shields)
* yara command-line tool now accept multiple rule files
* Allow a configurable limit for the number of strings per rule
(option --max-strings-per-rule)
* Implement integrity check for compiled rules
* Implement API for customizingimport statement (@edhoedt)
* Scan process memory in FreeBSD and OpenBDS (Hilko Bengen)
* BUGFIX: Negated character classes not working with case-insensitive
regexps (#765)
* BUGFIX: Multiple bugs while parsing ELF files (Nate Rosenblum)
* BUGFIX: Out-of-bounds access while parsing PE files.
* BUGFIX: Memory leaks while parsing invalid rules.
From the release notes for version 3.6.3:
* BUGFIX: Heap overflow (4a342f0)
* BUGFIX: Off-by-one NULL write in stack buffer (964d6c0)
* BUGFIX: Multiple issues in "dotnet" module (f40c14c, fc35e5f)
From the release notes for version 3.6.2:
* Increase RE_MAX_AST_LEVELS from 2000 to 6000.
* BUGFIX: Buffer overrun in regexp engine (issue #678)
* BUGFIX: Null pointer dereference in regexp engine (issue #682).
XXX pullup (security fixes)
The release notes mention:
* 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
The Python bindings are now released from a different tree, with the same
versioning apparently though.
"welcome to update" pettai@
The changes include:
* 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.
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.
