Buffer overflow in radare2 - CVE-2018-20460

 

Buffer overflow in radare2 - CVE-2018-20460

Published: December 25, 2018 / Updated: July 17, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU31174
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20460
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Radare
Affected software:
radare2

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a local non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

In radare2 prior to 3.1.2, the parseOperands function in libr/asm/arch/arm/armass64.c allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (application crash caused by stack-based buffer overflow) by crafting an input file.


How to mitigate CVE-2018-20460

Install update from vendor's website.

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