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

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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

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
radare2radareorg
  • < 6.2.0Affected

References

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