CVE-2018-20460 Memory corruption in n/a

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can cause a denial-of-service crash in radare2 via a stack-based buffer overflow when parsing crafted ARM64 assembly files.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2018-20460?

CVE-2018-20460 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Radare Radare2, published on 25 Dec 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-787

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-20460?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Radare Radare2.

How do I fix CVE-2018-20460?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-20460 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2018-20460 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-20460 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-35pg-cwp7-6hvv, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20460.

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