MEDIUMCVSS 5.5
CVE-2026-32288
CVE-2026-32288 updated by NVD
Summary
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.
References
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