Alex Goodman b8381670d6
fix(arch): bound the decompressed mtree listing
The ALPM cataloger handed a gzip stream straight to `mtree.ParseSpec`, which
materializes every entry before it returns any of them. Nothing capped the
decompressed size, so a crafted mtree in a scanned image expanded until the
process died. 64KB of input is enough to produce 64MB, and the ratio scales.

Reads through a limit now and rejects a listing that exceeds it. The read goes
one byte past the cap so that tripping it is distinguishable from a listing that
simply ends there, since silently truncating would produce a package missing
most of its files. The existing error path already surfaces this as an unknown.

The cap is well above any real package: an mtree names every file with its
digests, and even the largest packages land far under it.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-14 09:20:57 -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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