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CVE-2026-32288

Updated on 08 Apr 2026

Severity

5.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
5.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE ID
Links
NISTCIRCLRHELUbuntu

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
Alpine Linux 3.22 , Alpine Linux 3.23 , Debian 12 , Debian 13
Affected packages:
golang @ 1.20 (+19 more)
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.