Buffer overflow in radare2 - CVE-2019-12829
Published: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU32996
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-12829
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
radare2 through 3.5.1 mishandles the RParse API, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact, as demonstrated by newstr buffer overflows during replace operations. This affects libr/asm/asm.c and libr/parse/parse.c.Affected software
radare2
radare2 (Alpine package)
radare2 (Alpine package)
How to mitigate CVE-2019-12829
Install updates from vendor's website.
radare2 - update to 3.6.0
radare2 (Alpine package) - update to 3.9.0-r0
radare2 (Alpine package) - update to 3.9.0-r0