Alex Goodman f20b0955b8
fix(golang): report UPX binaries we cannot unpack as unknowns
A packed Go binary we fail to unpack means its packages are silently missing from the
SBOM. `getBuildInfo` checked the decompression error for nil and discarded it, so a
rejected file surfaced only the original `buildinfo.Read` error, and that one is
deliberately silenced because it is usually just "not a Go binary".

`decompressUPX` now marks the cases worth reporting with `errUPXDecompress`: it got
past the header and the method dispatch and still could not unpack the file. Everything
else stays quiet, which matters more than it sounds. `upx` defaults to NRV2B unless
`--lzma` is passed and only LZMA is implemented here, so treating any decompression
failure as reportable would attach a golang-cataloger unknown to every packed non-Go
binary in an image. Making the reportable case opt in rather than the quiet case a
growing list also means a guard added later is silent by default.

Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-08-18 16:44:22 -04:00
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2025-12-17 18:00:38 +00:00
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2026-05-18 11:59:55 -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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Installation

The quickest way to get up and going:

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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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