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capstone — security advisory
Capstone is a disassembly framework. In 6.0.0-Alpha9 and earlier, Capstone's arch/SH/SHDisassembler.c SH floating-point decoders such as opFADD, opFMUL, and opFSUB call set_reg() and set_reg_n() using sh_info.op.op_count without checking the fixed-size operands[] array. Repeated crafted instructions processed through cs_disasm_iter() or cs_disasm() with CS_ARCH_SH, CS_MODE_SH2A or CS_MODE_SH4A, CS_MODE_SHFPU, and CS_OPT_DETAIL can increment the operand count beyond the 176-byte sh_info allocation and perform a four-byte heap buffer overflow write. The corruption can crash the process and may enable code execution depending on heap layout. This issue is fixed in version 6.0.0-Alpha10.
- Products
- capstone
- Affected versions
- 3.0.4-0.1, 3.0.4-0.2, 3.0.4-3, 3.0.4-5, 4.0.1+really+3.0.5-1, 4.0.1+really+3.0.5-1build1, 4.0.2-3, 4.0.2-3build1, 4.0.2-5, 4.0.2-5.1, 4.0.2-5.1build1, 4.0.2-5ubuntu1, 5.0.6-1, 5.0.6-1build1, 5.0.7-2, 5.0.9-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-55893
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 02:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Capstone is a disassembly framework. In 6.0.0-Alpha9 and earlier, Capstone's arch/SH/SHDisassembler.c SH floating-point decoders such as opFADD, opFMUL, and opFSUB call set_reg() and set_reg_n() using sh_info.op.op_count without checking the fixed-size operands[] array. Repeated crafted instructions processed through cs_disasm_iter() or cs_disasm() with CS_ARCH_SH, CS_MODE_SH2A or CS_MODE_SH4A, CS_MODE_SHFPU, and CS_OPT_DETAIL can increment the operand count beyond the 176-byte sh_info allocation and perform a four-byte heap buffer overflow write. The corruption can crash the process and may enable code execution depending on heap layout. This issue is fixed in version 6.0.0-Alpha10.
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Complete source record
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