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CVE-2026-32288

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 "ol…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
GolangGo
before 1.25.9
from 1.26.0 before 1.26.2

Weakness classification

References