Bug 2496520

Summary:	CVE-2026-44740 grype: Billy: Denial of Service via crafted input due to insufficient validation [fedora-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lukas Javorsky <ljavorsk>
Component:	grype	Assignee:	dev
Status:	CLOSED COMPLETED	QA Contact:
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Priority:	high
Version:	45	CC:	dev
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Description Lukas Javorsky 2026-07-02 13:04:49 UTC

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Billy is an interface filesystem abstraction for Go. Prior to versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1, multiple components may improperly handle crafted or malformed input, resulting in panics, infinite loops, uncontrolled recursion, or excessive resource consumption. These issues arise from insufficient validation and missing safety mechanisms such as cycle detection, recursion limits, or defensive handling of unexpected states when processing untrusted repository data and filesystem structures. This issue has been patched in versions 5.9.0 and 6.0.0-alpha.1.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:12:55 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.

Comment 2 dev 2026-10-06 18:24:08 UTC

Not affected. Grype uses go-billy v5.9.1; this was fixed in v5.9.0.