CVE-2026-44740 go-billy: Lack of depth and cycle detection in symlink resolution may lead to infinite loops and resource exhaustion

Billy is an interface filesystem abstraction for Go. Prior to versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1, multiple components may improperly handle crafted or malformed input, resulting in panics, infinite loops, uncontrolled recursion, or excessive resource consumption. These issues arise from insufficien...

CVE-2026-44740

CVE-2026-44740 affects the go-billy interface filesystem abstraction. Before 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1, multiple components may mishandle crafted input, risking panics, infinite loops, uncontrolled recursion, or excessive resource consumption due to missing validation, cycle detection, and defensiv...