CVE-2025-5648

NameCVE-2025-5648
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in Radare2 5.9.9. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function r_cons_pal_init in the library /libr/cons/pal.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation of the argument -T leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The name of the patch is 5705d99cc1f23f36f9a84aab26d1724010b97798. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The documentation explains that the parameter -T is experimental and "crashy". Further analysis has shown "the race is not a real problem unless you use asan". A new warning has been added.
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Debian Bugs1107316

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
radare2 (PTS)sid5.9.8+dfsg-2vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
radare2source(unstable)(unfixed)1107316

Notes

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24238
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/5705d99cc1f23f36f9a84aab26d1724010b97798

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