Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/archive/tar package, versions <1.18.7>=1.19.0-0 <1.19.2
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed6 Oct 2022
- creditAdam Korczynski, OSS-Fuzz
Introduced: 6 Oct 2022
CVE-2022-2879 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/archive/tar to version 1.18.7, 1.19.2 or higher.
Overview
std/archive/tar is a Go standard library package std/archive/tar
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling.
Go Vulnerability Report:
via the Reader.Read function. An attacker can cause excessive memory allocation and trigger resource exhaustion or application panics by supplying a specially crafted archive with oversized file headers.