A vulnerability was found in Radare2 5.9.9. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects the function
r_cons_is_breaked in the library /libr/cons/cons.c of the component radiff2. The manipulation of the argument -T leads to memory corruption.
The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-5641. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.
The real existence of this vulnerability is still doubted at the moment.
It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.
The documentation explains that the parameter -T is experimental and “crashy”. Further analysis has shown “the race is not a real problem unless you use asan”. An additional warning regarding threading support has been added.
