CVE-2026-81885

medium

Description

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's NE relocation fixup-chain parser was vulnerable because the NE relocation parser followed fixup chains without an active iteration limit or cycle detection. The vulnerability is triggered by opening a crafted NE executable whose in-bounds relocation entry points back to itself instead of reaching 0xffff. The parser repeatedly processed the same relocation and allocated another relocation object on each iteration. This can cause denial of service through continuous CPU and memory consumption. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

References

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-43wr-4j49-rcxj

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26192

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26225

https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/93d794caa7c2f08413106255d49546e544c1f9f0

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-22

Updated: 2026-09-23

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00172