CVE-2025-5645

LOW

Radare2 5.9.9 - Memory Corruption in radiff2 via -T Argument

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Radare2 5.9.9. This affects the function r_cons_pal_init in the library /libr/cons/pal.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation of the argument -T leads to memory corruption. Attacking locally is a requirement. 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 identifier of the patch is 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.311133
Permissions Required, VDB Entry signature permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311133
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry third-party-advisory
https://vuldb.com/?submit.586922
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24234
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking
https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24234#issuecomment-2918847551

Scores

CVSS v3 2.5
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.8%
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