# CVE-2026-81884: radare2: Heap out-of-bounds read in radare2 Mach-O LC\_DATA\_IN\_CODE parser

- Severity: CVSS 2.5 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 6.2.0
- Published: 2026-09-22 · Updated: 2026-09-22

## Affected

- radareorg radare2: fixed in 6.2.0

## Description

radare2 is a UNIX-like reverse engineering framework and command-line toolset. Prior to 6.2.0, radare2's Mach-O LC_DATA_IN_CODE parser was vulnerable because the Mach-O LC_DATA_IN_CODE parser trusted dataoff and datasize and allowed a final partial record to be processed. The vulnerability is triggered by opening a crafted Mach-O file while the non-default bin.verbose option is enabled. When datasize was not a multiple of data_in_code_entry, the last iteration read beyond the allocated buffer. This can cause a heap out-of-bounds read and possible process termination; no attacker-observable memory disclosure has been demonstrated. This issue is fixed in version 6.2.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on radareorg radare2, upgrade to a fixed version (6.2.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/security/advisories/GHSA-c2g2-2mc7-3x5w
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/26226
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/pull/26193
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/commit/a73de09fea7516f65c14917d66113316ec7e7d6e
- https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.2.0

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