Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.43 security and extras update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 4.18.43 is now available with updates to packages and images that fix several bugs. This release includes a security update for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. 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 specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

Security Bulletin: Unbounded Memory Allocation in Go tar package When Processing Sparse Files, affects watsonx.data

Summary Go tar package's tar.Reader does not limit the number of sparse region blocks in GNU tar pax 1.0 sparse files. Malicious archives with many sparse regions can trigger excessive memory allocation, potentially causing memory exhaustion, even from small compressed inputs. This can affect...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. 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 specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. 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 specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. 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 specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. 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 specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

golang: archive/tar: Unbounded allocation when parsing GNU sparse map

A flaw was found in the archive/tar package in the Go standard library. 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 specially crafted tar archive with a pax header indicating a big number of sparse regions can cause a Go...

The vulnerability of the Go programming language component tar Reader, which allows a hacker to trigger a denial-of-service attack

The vulnerability of the Go programming language component tar Reader is related to unlimited distribution of resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures remotely...