CVE-2026-81878 PUBLISHED

radare2: Integer overflow causes heap out-of-bounds write in radare2 PYC parser

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 27.08.2026 Published: 22.09.2026 Updated: 22.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 5.5

Product Status

Vendor radareorg
Product radare2
Versions
  • Version < 6.2.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-190: Integer Overflow or Wraparound CWE
  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE