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CVE-2026-32288 (GCVE-0-2026-32288)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-08 01:06 – Updated: 2026-04-13 18:20
VLAI
Title
Unbounded allocation for old GNU sparse in archive/tar
Summary
tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the "old GNU sparse map" format.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-04-13 17:51 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library archive/tar Affected: 0 , < 1.25.9 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.2 (semver)
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Credits
Colin Walters (walters@verbum.org) Uuganbayar Lkhamsuren (https://github.com/uug4na) Jakub Ciolek
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