CVE-2026-81879 PUBLISHED

radare2: Heap out-of-bounds read in radare2 ELF PN_XNUM handling

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 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.

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-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE