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CVE-2026-32288

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CVE-2026-32288

Published: Apr 8, 2026

Modified: Apr 13, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

Go standard library

archive/tar

affected
0 - < 1.25.9
affected
1.26.0-0 - < 1.26.2

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