Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pkg/archive package, versions <1.21.0
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- published6 Mar 2026
- disclosed2 Mar 2026
- creditOleh Konko
Introduced: 2 Mar 2026
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-770 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade github.com/chainguard-dev/malcontent/pkg/archive to version 1.21.0 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to improper cleanup in error paths within resource extraction and scanning processes. An attacker can degrade system availability by causing resource leaks and exhausting file descriptors through repeated triggering of error conditions.