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.
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Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Unbounded allocation for old GNU sparse in archive/tar
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T01:06:57.416Z

Reserved: 2026-03-11T16:38:46.557Z

Link: CVE-2026-32288

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-08T02:16:03.707

Modified: 2026-04-08T02:16:03.707

Link: CVE-2026-32288

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