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Medium · 6.1 CVE-2025-49589 EUVD-2025-18219

PCSX2 Contains a Stack-based Buffer Overflow in IOP Console Logging

Published Jun 12, 2025 · Updated Jun 13, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

PCSX2 is a free and open-source PlayStation 2 (PS2) emulator. A stack-based buffer overflow exists in the Kprintf_HLE function of PCSX2 versions up to 2.3.414. Opening a disc image that logs a specially crafted message may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code if the user enabled IOP Console Logging. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.3.414.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
PCSX2 pcsx2 < 2.3.414 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pcsx2 2.4.0+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 pcsx2 1.6.0+dfsg-3+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 pcsx2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 pcsx2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pcsx2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 pcsx2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pcsx2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pcsx2 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pcsx2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS pcsx2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS pcsx2 No fix yet —

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