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CVE-2026-81885: radare2: Infinite relocation-chain loop causes denial of service in radare2 NE parser

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2026-09-22 · updated 2026-09-28
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's NE relocation fixup-chain parser was vulnerable because the NE relocation parser followed fixup chains without an active iteration limit or cycle detection. The vulnerability is triggered by opening a crafted NE executable whose in-bounds relocation entry points back to itself instead of reaching 0xffff. The parser repeatedly processed the same relocation and allocated another relocation object on each iteration. This can cause denial of service through continuous CPU and memory consumption. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

Affected products

• radareorg/radare2: before 6.2.0 — fixed in 6.2.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: radareorg/radare2 6.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/93d794caa7c2f08413106255d49546e544c1f9f0
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26225
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26192
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-43wr-4j49-rcxj
• https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26225

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