CVE-2026-81878 (GCVE-0-2026-81878)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-22 15:07 – Updated: 2026-09-22 17:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
radare2: Integer overflow causes heap out-of-bounds write in radare2 PYC parser
Summary
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.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-09-22 17:54 UTC
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/adv… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26222 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26177 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/67274… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0 | x_refsource_MISC |
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