Alex Goodman 6f512803d2
chore(lint): catch mholt/archives decompressors too
The decompression rule only matched the stdlib constructors, so the two
cataloger sites that decompress through mholt/archives went unreported while
being exactly as unbounded. Matches OpenReader on an archives.Decompressor,
which picks up both.

Also notes in the report text that a byte limit bounds the input and not what
the consumer retains. Measured on the mtree parser: 16MB of newlines, well
inside a 64MB byte cap, cost 8GB of peak heap, because the parser keeps an
object per line. A site can satisfy this rule and still OOM.

Worth knowing for the next rule: a type filter that fails to resolve takes the
whole rule set down with "used Run() with an empty rule set" rather than just
skipping that rule. Type.Is on an interface does that; Type.Implements with an
m.Import is what works.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-14 10:28:20 -04:00
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Syft

A CLI tool and Go library for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container images and filesystems. Exceptional for vulnerability detection when used with a scanner like Grype.

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Features

Tip

New to Syft? Check out the Getting Started guide for a walkthrough!

Installation

The quickest way to get up and going:

curl -sSfL https://get.anchore.io/syft | sudo sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin

Tip

See Installation docs for more ways to get Syft, including Homebrew, Docker, Scoop, Chocolatey, Nix, and more!

The basics

See the packages within a container image or directory:

# container image
syft alpine:latest

# directory
syft ./my-project

To get an SBOM, specify one or more output formats:

# SBOM to stdout
syft <image> -o cyclonedx-json

# Multiple SBOMs to files
syft <image> -o spdx-json=./spdx.json -o cyclonedx-json=./cdx.json

Tip

Check out the Getting Started guide to explore all of the capabilities and features.

Want to know all of the ins-and-outs of Syft? Check out the CLI docs, configuration docs, and JSON schema.

Contributing

We encourage users to help make these tools better by submitting issues when you find a bug or want a new feature. Check out our contributing overview and developer-specific documentation if you are interested in providing code contributions.

Syft development is sponsored by Anchore, and is released under the Apache-2.0 License. The Syft logo by Anchore is licensed under CC BY 4.0

For commercial support options with Syft or Grype, please contact Anchore.

Come talk to us!

The Syft Team holds regular community meetings online. All are welcome to join to bring topics for discussion.

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A CLI tool and Go library for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container images and filesystems.
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