High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 11, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-17487

Description

radare2 4.5.0 misparses signature information in PE files, causing a segmentation fault in r_x509_parse_algorithmidentifier in libr/util/x509.c. This is due to a malformed object identifier in IMAGE_DIRECTORY_ENTRY_SECURITY.

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Affected products

radare2/radare2description
Radare/Radare2llm-fuzzy2 versions
<4.5.0+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: <4.5.0
- cpe:2.3:a:radare:radare2:4.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Fedoraproject/Fedora2 versions
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

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References

github.com/radareorg/radare2/issues/17431nvdExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/45SGGCWFIIV7N2X2QZRREHOW7ODT3IH7/nvd
lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJET3RR6W7LAK4H6VPTMAZS24W7XYHRZ/nvd

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