CVE-2026-81879

NameCVE-2026-81879
Descriptionradare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's ELF PN_XNUM handling was vulnerable because the ELF parser allocated the program-header array using the resolved PN_XNUM count but several consumers still iterated with the original e_phnum value of 65535. The vulnerability is triggered by processing a crafted ELF file with e_phnum = 0xffff and a much smaller resolved count in shdr[0].sh_info. Consumers iterated beyond the allocated program-header array. This can cause a heap out-of-bounds read and process termination, resulting in denial of service; memory disclosure and code execution have not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
radare2 (PTS)sid6.1.8+ds-1vulnerable

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
radare2source(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-jqfq-hvcp-xh4p
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26223
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26178
Fixed by: https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/9449b07579c19b6b187c1a0918fbec2cef1a036e (6.2.0)

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