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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-81880 EUVD-2026-84467

radare2: Uncontrolled resource consumption in radare2 PEF loader

Published Sep 22, 2026 · Updated Sep 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's Apple Preferred Executable Format loader was vulnerable because the PEF loader accepted relocSecCount values that were not bounded by the number of sections or complete relocation records in the input. The vulnerability is triggered by normal binary-format auto-detection of a small crafted Apple PEF file. The loader could perform up to 268,435,456 relocation-section iterations and repeated buffer operations after record offsets passed the end of the file. This can cause denial of service through excessive CPU consumption and prolonged processing. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
radareorg radare2 < 6.2.0 —

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
Ubuntu 26.10 radare2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS radare2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS radare2 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS radare2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS radare2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS radare2 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 radare2 6.2.2-bp160.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21988-1

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