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CVE-2025-60360: 
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A memory leak vulnerability was discovered in radare2 versions 5.9.8 and earlier, specifically in the r2rsubprocessinit function. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2025-60360 and was disclosed on October 17, 2025 (NVD, GitHub PR).

Technical details

The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 5.5 (Medium) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H. The vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, and low privileges to exploit. It has no impact on confidentiality or integrity but has a high impact on availability. The issue has been classified as CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime (Ubuntu, AttackerKB).

Impact

The memory leak vulnerability primarily affects system availability. When exploited, it can lead to resource exhaustion and potential denial of service conditions due to unreleased memory in the r2rsubprocessinit function (GitHub PR).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in version 6.0.0 of radare2. Users are advised to upgrade to this version or later to address the memory leak issue. The fix was implemented through a pull request (#24245) and committed with hash 446671dafa81aa377305369796f03f31ed674bd9 (Debian).

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Source: This report was generated using AI

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