CVE-2026-47143
capstone: Capstone: Denial of Service vulnerability via crafted input
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · July 22, 2026
Updated · August 21, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in the Capstone disassembly framework. This vulnerability, a null pointer dereference, can be exploited by a remote attacker. By providing a specially crafted input containing a specific 4-byte sequence during the disassembly of 3DNow! opcodes, the attacker can cause any application using the reduced X86 Capstone library to crash, leading to a denial of service (DoS).
Statement
A flaw was found in the Capstone disassembly framework. A NULL pointer dereference in modRMRequired() and decode() when disassembling 3DNow! opcodes can crash applications using Capstone. This vulnerability only affects builds compiled with the -DCAPSTONE_X86_REDUCE flag; standard full builds are not vulnerable.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference