CVE-2025-60361
NixOS vulnerability analysis and mitigation

Overview

A memory leak vulnerability was discovered in radare2 versions 5.9.8 and earlier, specifically in the function bochs_open. The vulnerability was assigned CVE-2025-60361 and was publicly disclosed on October 17, 2025 (NVD).

Technical details

The vulnerability is classified as a memory leak (CWE-401: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime). It has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 3.3 (Low) with the following vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L. This indicates that the vulnerability requires local access, low attack complexity, low privileges, and no user interaction to exploit (NVD, Ubuntu).

Impact

The vulnerability affects the availability of the system, with no impact on confidentiality or integrity. The memory leak could potentially lead to a denial of service condition through resource exhaustion (Ubuntu).

Mitigation and workarounds

The vulnerability has been fixed in radare2 version 6.0.0 through a patch that addresses the memory leak in the bochs_open function. Users are advised to upgrade to the fixed version (GitHub PR).

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