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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | radare2: Heap out-of-bounds read in radare2 ELF PN_XNUM handling | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-125 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-22T15:38:46.170Z
Reserved: 2026-08-27T17:48:42.122Z
Link: CVE-2026-81879
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-22T16:18:02.617
Modified: 2026-09-22T16:18:02.617
Link: CVE-2026-81879
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Updated: 2026-09-22T16:30:12Z
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