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syft/syft/pkg/cataloger
Alex Goodman 57bd6a5f9c fix(cpe): bound CPE candidate generation for pathological package metadata (#5356)
* fix(cpe): cap sub-selection prefixes to bound candidate cross-product

a name with thousands of `-`/`_` separators produced one vendor and product candidate per segment, and the vendor x product cross-product made CPE generation roughly cubic in time and memory (8KB name: ~250s, 4.8GB RSS). `generateSubSelections` now stops after 10 prefixes. The full name is still a candidate, so real package names are unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(cpe): bound candidate count and field length before the cross-product

the prefix cap only covered one way to inflate the vendor x product cross-product in `FromPackageAttributes`. Java groupIDs add a vendor (and, with no artifactID, a product) per dot segment, and .NET executables add one of each per file, so a 1000-segment `Bundle-SymbolicName` still produced ~1M CPEs and several GB.

- vendor and product candidates are each capped at 64 (shortest first, so truncation is deterministic)
- names, versions, and candidates over 512 bytes are skipped, since every byte is paid once per CPE in key building and regex validation

real packages produce around a dozen candidates with names well under 100 bytes, so output for real inputs is unchanged. Also corrects the earlier comment: prefixes only become vendor candidates and the cost was quadratic, not cubic.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>

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Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-29 16:01:21 -04:00
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