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GSD-2022-2879

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

Details

Reader.Read does not set a limit on the maximum size of file headers. A maliciously crafted archive could cause Read to allocate unbounded amounts of memory, potentially causing resource exhaustion or panics. After fix, Reader.Read limits the maximum size of header blocks to 1 MiB.

Aliases

CVE-2022-2879

Aliases

CVE-2022-2879

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      "https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2879.html",
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      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0328",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0445",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0446",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0542",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0693",
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      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0709",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0727",
      "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1042",
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CVE-2022-2879 (GCVE-0-2022-2879)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-14 00:00 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:32

Title

Unbounded memory consumption when reading headers in archive/tar

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE 400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

Go Google root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://go.dev/issue/54853
https://go.dev/cl/439355
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/xtu…
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-1037
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Go standard library	archive/tar	Affected: 0 , < 1.18.7 (semver) Affected: 1.19.0-0 , < 1.19.2 (semver)

Credits

Adam Korczynski (ADA Logics) OSS-Fuzz

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