Vulnerabilites related to Go standard library - archive/tar
cve-2022-2879
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-10-14 00:00
Modified
2025-02-13 16:32
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of memory, potentially causing resource exhaustion or panics. After fix, Reader.Read limits the maximum size of header blocks to 1 MiB.
References
Impacted products
Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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Go standard library | archive/tar |
Version: 0 ≤ Version: 1.19.0-0 ≤ |
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