CVE-2025-9136 (GCVE-0-2025-9136)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-19 11:32 – Updated: 2025-08-19 13:15
VLAI?
Summary
A flaw has been found in libretro RetroArch 1.18.0/1.19.0/1.20.0. This affects the function filestream_vscanf of the file libretro-common/streams/file_stream.c. This manipulation causes out-of-bounds read. The attack needs to be launched locally. Upgrading to version 1.21.0 mitigates this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
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Assigner
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Credits
Simcha Kosman
simkca (VulDB User)
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