USN-7842-1: Radare2 vulnerability

Publication date

27 October 2025

Overview

Radare2 could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.


Packages

  • radare2 - free and advanced command line hexadecimal editor

Details

It was discovered that Radare2 conntained a memory leak, resulting
in performance degradation. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Radare2 to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2025-60358)

It was discovered that Radare2 conntained a memory leak, resulting
in performance degradation. An attacker could possibly use this
issue to cause Radare2 to crash, resulting in a denial of
service. (CVE-2025-60358)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:


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