Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository radareorg/radare2 prior to 5.9.0.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GitHub repository radareorg/radare2 prior to 5.9.0. (CVE-2023-5686)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-f2a6d27239 advisory.

    - cherrypick from upstream master patches for known vulnerabilities:
    - CVE-2023-4322 - heap-buffer-overflow in the brainfuck dissassembler
    - CVE-2023-5686 - heap-buffer-overflow in /radare2/shlr/java/code.c

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-ffaebb1e10 advisory.

    - cherrypick from upstream master patches for known vulnerabilities:
    - CVE-2023-4322 - heap-buffer-overflow in the brainfuck dissassembler
    - CVE-2023-5686 - heap-buffer-overflow in /radare2/shlr/java/code.c

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
256629	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5686	Nessus	Misc.	high
185509	Fedora 37 : radare2 (2023-f2a6d27239)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
185507	Fedora 38 : radare2 (2023-ffaebb1e10)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

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CVE-2023-5686

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

critical