Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/archive/tar package, versions <1.25.9>=1.26.0-0 <1.26.2
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- published8 Apr 2026
- disclosed7 Apr 2026
- creditColin Walters, Uuganbayar Lkhamsuren, Jakub Ciolek
Introduced: 7 Apr 2026
CVE-2026-32288 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/archive/tar to version 1.25.9, 1.26.2 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:
tar.Reader can allocate an unbounded amount of memory when reading a maliciously-crafted archive containing a large number of sparse regions encoded in the "old GNU sparse map" format.