Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CVE-2025-5645
Summary
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Radare2 version 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 said 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 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.
- HIGH
- LOCAL
- NONE
- UNCHANGED
- NONE
- LOW
- NONE
- LOW
CWE-119 - Buffer Overflow
Buffer overflow attacks involve data transit and operations exceeding the restricted memory buffer, thereby corrupting or overwriting data in adjacent memory locations. Such overflow allows the attacker to run arbitrary code or manipulate the existing code to cause privilege escalation, data breach, denial of service, system crash and even complete system compromise. Given that languages such as C and C++ lack default safeguards against overwriting or accessing data in their memory, applications utilizing these languages are most susceptible to buffer overflows attacks.
Advisory Timeline
- Published
