🛡️ CVE-2025-5641 on Ubuntu — radare2

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-5641 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package radare2. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
• Attack requirements: None — no deployment-specific condition has to hold.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5641 is classified as CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds. A read or write is performed without confirming it stays inside the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent memory.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-5641 is recorded against 1 package.

• radare2

Timeline and source

Published on 5 June 2025 and last revised on 20 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
drive.google.com (Report)
github.com (Report)
vuldb.com (Report)
vuldb.com (Report)
vuldb.com (Report)

Other advisories for this package

radare2 has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• openSUSE-SU-2026:11479-1 (published 9 Aug 2026)
• CVE-2026-14787 (3.3 Low, published 6 Jul 2026)
• UBUNTU-CVE-2026-14789 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14786 (3.3 Low, published 6 Jul 2026)
• UBUNTU-CVE-2026-14788 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• UBUNTU-CVE-2026-14787 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• UBUNTU-CVE-2026-14786 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2026-14789 (3.3 Low, published 6 Jul 2026)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Buffer Bounds) in other software:

• CVE-2017-12601 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2017-12862 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-1941 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-4179 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-4155 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2013-0270 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-33162 (7.3 High, published 16 Aug 2024)
• CVE-2022-33267 (6.7 Medium, published 6 Jun 2023)

CVE-2025-5641 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

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References