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CVE-2020-17487

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

radare2 4.5.0 misparses signature information in PE files, causing a segmentation fault in r_x509_parse_algorithmidentifier in libr/util/x509.c. This is due to a malformed object identifier in IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 32, 33
• radareorg/radare2: 4.5.0

References

• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/17431
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/45SGGCWFIIV7N2X2QZRREHOW7ODT3IH7/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJET3RR6W7LAK4H6VPTMAZS24W7XYHRZ/
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/17431
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/45SGGCWFIIV7N2X2QZRREHOW7ODT3IH7/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJET3RR6W7LAK4H6VPTMAZS24W7XYHRZ/

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