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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-81885 EUVD-2026-84471

radare2: Infinite relocation-chain loop causes denial of service in radare2 NE parser

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 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.

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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