CVE-2026-81885
Description
A flaw was found in radare2, a reverse engineering framework. By opening a specially crafted NE executable file, an attacker could trigger an an infinite loop within the application's relocation parser. This continuous processing would consume excessive CPU and memory, leading to a denial of service (DoS) condition, making the application unresponsive.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Amplification
An infinite loop will cause unexpected consumption of resources, such as CPU cycles or memory. The software's operation may slow down, or cause a long time to respond.
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