CVE-2025-5642

LOW

radare2 5.9.9 - Memory Corruption in radiff2 r_cons_pal_init

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Radare2 5.9.9. Affected is the function r_cons_pal_init in the library /libr/cons/pal.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack needs to be approached locally. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment. The patch is identified as 5705d99cc1f23f36f9a84aab26d1724010b97798. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The documentation explains that the parameter -T is experimental and "crashy". Further analysis has shown "the race is not a real problem unless you use asan". A new warning has been added.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.311130
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311130
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.586910
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24231
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24231#issuecomment-2918848163

Scores

CVSS v3 2.5
EPSS 0.0019
EPSS Percentile 8.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (1)
radare/radare2 5.9.9
Published Jun 05, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026