CVE-2025-5642 – Radare2 radiff2 Memory Corruption Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-5642 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jun. 05, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Tag disputed
    Added 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.
    Added CVSS V4.0 AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added Reference https://drive.google.com/file/d/1joXpofhKSeb3uJ034ayVuWIoJj08gm_9/view?usp=sharing
    Added Reference https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/5705d99cc1f23f36f9a84aab26d1724010b97798
    Added Reference https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24231
    Added Reference https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/24231#issuecomment-2918848163
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311130
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?id.311130
    Added Reference https://vuldb.com/?submit.586910
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