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Tool

Rizin

Command-line reverse-engineering framework that began as a fork of radare2. The rizin shell analyzes and disassembles binaries, debugs programs and works as a scriptable hex editor, while rz-* tools cover binary-format information, assembly, diffing, hashing, pattern search and FLIRT signatures. The README lists dozens of architectures, bytecode formats and file formats from ELF, PE and Mach-O to dyld caches and BIOS/UEFI images; rzpipe scripts it from Python, Rust, Go and other languages. Cutter is the separate GUI built on it.

Requirements and limitations

  • Latest release at review: v0.9.1, published 2026-06-29, with a static Linux x86_64 build, a macOS package, Windows installers and static/shared archives, Android arm, aarch64 and x86_64 archives and a source tarball. The reviewed dev branch already declares the unreleased v0.10.0; this entry pins that commit for documentation only.
  • Source builds use meson and ninja; meson.build requires meson 0.58.0+, although the README mentions 0.55.0. The README lists Windows 7+, macOS/iOS/iPadOS, GNU/Linux, the BSDs, Android, QNX, Solaris/Illumos, Haiku and GNU/Hurd hosts. rzpipe lives in a separate repository, and plugins, including decompiler plugins, were not reviewed.
  • meson.build declares LGPL-3.0-only, with COPYING and COPYING.LESSER; the LICENSES directory holds further licenses used by individual files. Listed architecture and format support was not exercised; no binaries were analyzed.

About this entry

Type
Tool
Category
Native analysis tools
Relationship
Foundation tool
Targets
Binary

Sources reviewed

The description was reviewed against primary sources. This does not establish runtime testing, security auditing or verified compatibility.

Primary sources

  1. README.md GitHub · rizinorg/rizin · Revision db112e5
  2. README.md#L61-L110 GitHub · rizinorg/rizin · Revision db112e5
  3. meson.build#L1-L4 GitHub · rizinorg/rizin · Revision db112e5
  4. BUILDING.md GitHub · rizinorg/rizin · Revision db112e5
  5. COPYING.LESSER GitHub · rizinorg/rizin · Revision db112e5
  6. LICENSES GitHub · rizinorg/rizin · Revision db112e5
  7. https://github.com/rizinorg/rizin/releases/tag/v0.9.1