Security Advisories

CVE-2022-2879

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Last updated

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2879

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

Description

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.

References

https://images.chainguard.dev/security/CGA-jwh6-gh97-fp6h
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fqpx-62jv-7r6r
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2022-1037
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-09
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/xtuG5faxtaU
https://go.dev/cl/439355
https://go.dev/issue/54853
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-2879

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