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...