YARA-X 1.21.0 Release, (Sat, Oct 3rd)
At a glance
- Severity
- Low
- Used in attacks
- No flaws named
- Reported by
- 1 outlet
YARA-X's 1.21.0 release brings 5 improvements and 4 bugfixes.
One improvement is allowing stdin for CLI option --scan-list.
This allows one to generate a list of folders to scan, and pass it via a pipe. Like this example (Windows) to scan all folders with "sample" in their name:
dir /s /b /a:d c:\*samples* | yr.exe scan --scan-list - rules.yara
Didier Stevens
Senior handler
blog.DidierStevens.com
Originally published by SANS Internet Storm Center. © SANS Internet Storm Center.
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2026-10-03 14:40 UTC
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