radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's CPython bytecode .pyc marshal parser was vulnerable because the CPython marshal readers accepted a 32-bit string length without rejecting values that overflow the size-plus-one allocation. The vulnerability is triggered by opening or inspecting a crafted .pyc file through r2 or rabin2. A length of 0xffffffff wrapped the allocation to zero before the common byte reader wrote attacker-controlled data and fill bytes beyond the heap allocation. This can cause heap memory corruption and denial of service; arbitrary code execution is possible but has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.
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| Description | radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's CPython bytecode .pyc marshal parser was vulnerable because the CPython marshal readers accepted a 32-bit string length without rejecting values that overflow the size-plus-one allocation. The vulnerability is triggered by opening or inspecting a crafted .pyc file through r2 or rabin2. A length of 0xffffffff wrapped the allocation to zero before the common byte reader wrote attacker-controlled data and fill bytes beyond the heap allocation. This can cause heap memory corruption and denial of service; arbitrary code execution is possible but has not been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0. | |
| Title | radare2: Integer overflow causes heap out-of-bounds write in radare2 PYC parser | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-190 CWE-787 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-22T17:55:51.200Z
Reserved: 2026-08-27T17:48:42.122Z
Link: CVE-2026-81878
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-22T16:18:02.457
Modified: 2026-09-22T16:18:02.457
Link: CVE-2026-81878
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Updated: 2026-09-22T17:15:15Z