CVE-2022-2879 (GCVE-0-2022-2879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:32
VLAI?
Title
Unbounded memory consumption when reading headers in archive/tar
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE 400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library archive/tar Affected: 0 , < 1.18.7 (semver)
Affected: 1.19.0-0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)
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Credits
Adam Korczynski (ADA Logics) OSS-Fuzz
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