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GO-2025-4014

Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map in archive/tar

Details

tar.Reader does not set a maximum size on the number of sparse region data blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. A maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions can cause a Reader to read an unbounded amount of data from the archive into memory. When reading from a compressed source, a small compressed input can result in large allocations.

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Affected packages

Go / stdlib
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 1.24.8
Fix go get stdlib@v1.24.8

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