CVE-2026-81878

Name
CVE-2026-81878
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
Mailing lists
Exploits
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/6727454b666b28c33837b219a5f91136461357c0
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26222
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26177
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0
security-advisories@github.com https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-9phv-v2w8-56j3

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:radare:radare2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* radare2 >= None < 6.2.0

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
radare2 edge-community 6.1.8-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 6.1.6-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 6.1.4-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 6.1.2-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 6.0.8-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 6.0.7-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 6.0.4-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.9.8-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.8.2-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.8.0-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.7.2-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.7.0-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.6.8-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.6.6-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.6.4-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.6.2-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.6.0-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.5.4-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.5.2-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.4.0-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 5.3.1-r0 Valery Kartel <valery.kartel@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 4.5.1-r0 None possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 4.5.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 4.4.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 4.0.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
radare2 edge-community 3.9.0-r0 None possibly vulnerable
radare2 3.24-community 6.1.6-r0 omni <omni+alpine@hack.org> possibly vulnerable