CVE-2019-12829 — radare2 through 3

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/pa

01What is this vulnerability?

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.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-06-15T16:32:12.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:32:55.383Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/radare/radare2/issues/14303