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...

Amazon Linux 2 : golang, --advisory ALAS2-2025-3042 (ALAS-2025-3042)

The version of golang installed on the remote host is prior to 1.24.8-1. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2025-3042 advisory. net/url: insufficient validation of bracketed IPv6 hostnames The Parse function permitted values other than IPv6 addresses...