CVE-2026-81878
radare2: Integer overflow causes heap out-of-bounds write in radare2 PYC parser
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.5 Medium
- Published
- Sep 22, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 22, 2026
- Reserved
- Aug 27, 2026
Description
radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's CPython bytecode .pyc marshal parser was vulnerable because the CPython marshal readers accepted a 32-bit string length without rejecting values that overflow the size-plus-one allocation. The vulnerability is triggered by opening or inspecting a crafted .pyc file through r2 or rabin2. A length of 0xffffffff wrapped the allocation to zero before the common byte reader wrote attacker-controlled data and fill bytes beyond the heap allocation. This can cause heap memory corruption and denial of service; arbitrary code execution is possible but has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
radare2radareorg |
|
References
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-9phv-v2w8-56j3
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26222
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26177
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/6727454b666b28c33837b219a5f91136461357c0
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0
Every record here comes from the CVE Program’s CVE List. © 1999–2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. The records are reproduced under the CVE Program terms of use.