fix(unionreader): honor the io.ReaderAt contract in readerAtAdapter - #5186
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`readerAtAdapter.ReadAt` seeks and then issues a single `Read`, which breaks the `io.ReaderAt` contract in both directions against the squashfs reader it exists to wrap: - `squashfs.File.Read` copies against the decompressed block length but advances its block cursor by the nominal block size, so a block that decompresses short silently stops copying and returns fewer bytes with a nil error. `ReadAt` forbids that, and callers rely on it: anything decoding a fixed-size structure off the result gets zero padding it has no way to detect and parses it as real data. The GraalVM PE export table and the UPX block reader both size a buffer from a header field and then ignore `n` entirely, so a crafted image drives them straight through the padding. - a read landing exactly on the end of the file returns a *full* buffer paired with `io.EOF`. `bytes.Reader.ReadAt` returns nil there, and the callers that treat any error as fatal were written against that, so squashfs-resident binaries sized near a read boundary were being skipped outright. `io.ReadFull` normalizes both: it fills the buffer across short reads, and it clears the error once the buffer is full. A genuinely short tail is reported as `io.EOF`, which is what `ReadAt` implementations return at the end of a file, and what the buffering branch of `GetUnionReader` already returns. Affects squashfs-backed sources (snaps), so in practice the binary catalogers reading structure out of executables. Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
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Two rules out of the recent unbounded allocation work (#5187, #5195, #5267, #5291, #5292, #5293, #5294). `noOverflowingBoundsCheck` flags `offset + size > limit` (and <, <=, >=) where an operand is unsigned, neither addend is constant, and the operands are at least 32 bits. Unsigned addition wraps, so an offset out of a file header can carry the sum past the wrap point and pass a check it should have failed. The fix is to subtract against the limit instead. Constant addends are excluded because `pos+4 <= uint32(len(buf))` is the normal way to step a cursor, and the 32-bit floor drops nibbles widened for a comparison. Would have caught four sites across #5195 and #5291. `noSwallowedEOF` flags `return nil` / `return nil, nil` on an io.EOF check. The caller gets a zero value it cannot tell from real data, and anything decoding a fixed-size struct off it parses the padding as content. That is the shape behind #5186. Both decide from the expression alone, and writing the fix deletes the pattern, so neither needs a suppression anywhere in the tree. That was the bar: rules for the allocation and decompression classes were tried and dropped, because the bound they look for lives in a preceding statement (or, for a decompressor constructor, always downstream), so no correct implementation can silence them. That would have meant ~15 permanent nolints on code that is already right. The rules here that do work don't judge whether a bound exists, they route to a wrapper that takes one: noDirectTempFiles, noDirectELFOpen. Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
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* build(deps): bump go-make to v0.8.1
Picks up golangci-lint 2.13.2 (built with go1.27) in place of 2.11.4 (go1.26).
The old build panics outright on a go1.27 GOROOT with "file requires newer Go
version go1.27", and an older mise-shim build fails the quieter way: it loses
type info and reports zero findings with exit 0, so a ruleguard run comes back
green without having evaluated anything.
Also folds in what the newer linter flags:
- `reflect.Ptr` -> `reflect.Pointer` in three files, applied by --fix
- `tw.CellFormatting{MergeMode: ...}` -> `tw.CellMerging{Mode: ...}` in the
cataloger info table, for a staticcheck SA1019 deprecation
Note the deprecation text names `CellConfig.CellMerging.Mode`, but the field is
`CellConfig.Merging`; `CellMerging` is the type. That command path has no test
coverage, so the swap was checked by rendering the same hierarchical-merge table
both ways and diffing: byte identical.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore(lint): tune goconst for data tables
goconst got stricter in golangci-lint 2.13 and now counts strings in map
literals and struct fields, which lights up every lookup table in the repo. It
was already enabled, so this is main going red on a linter bump rather than
anything new in the tree: 101 findings, and the default threshold of 3 means a
vendor name appearing in three rows of a table reads as a magic constant.
Raising `min-occurrences` to 5 takes that to 14. The rest split by whether the
repeated string is data or an actual constant:
- `cpegenerate` is excluded by path. It maps artifact names to vendors,
products, and maven group ids, and repeats strings 35, 83, even 293 times, so
no threshold reaches it. Hoisting those would trade a readable table for
indirection.
- the two SBOM fixture builders in `format/internal/testutil` get a
function-level nolint each. The repeated names and versions are what the
golden files assert against.
- `mysql-cluster` and `php` were genuine repeated literals and are now
constants.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore(test): extract measureAlloc into a shared helper
The allocation-budget tests added during the unbounded allocation work grew a
copy of the same helper in every package they touched: four identical
`measureAlloc` definitions plus two more spelled out inline against
`runtime.MemStats`.
Now `testutils.MeasureAlloc`, at the repo root so `internal/spillbuf` can reach
it too. The doc comment carries the two things that were only recorded in some
of the copies: TotalAlloc is process-wide so callers must not use t.Parallel,
and a budget assertion only means something if the fixture would really blow
past it unguarded, so measure the unguarded path as well.
No behavior change, the body was identical in all six.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
* chore(lint): add ruleguard rules for overflow and swallowed EOF
Two rules out of the recent unbounded allocation work (#5187, #5195, #5267,
#5291, #5292, #5293, #5294).
`noOverflowingBoundsCheck` flags `offset + size > limit` (and <, <=, >=) where
an operand is unsigned, neither addend is constant, and the operands are at
least 32 bits. Unsigned addition wraps, so an offset out of a file header can
carry the sum past the wrap point and pass a check it should have failed. The
fix is to subtract against the limit instead. Constant addends are excluded
because `pos+4 <= uint32(len(buf))` is the normal way to step a cursor, and the
32-bit floor drops nibbles widened for a comparison. Would have caught four
sites across #5195 and #5291.
`noSwallowedEOF` flags `return nil` / `return nil, nil` on an io.EOF check. The
caller gets a zero value it cannot tell from real data, and anything decoding a
fixed-size struct off it parses the padding as content. That is the shape behind
#5186.
Both decide from the expression alone, and writing the fix deletes the pattern,
so neither needs a suppression anywhere in the tree. That was the bar: rules for
the allocation and decompression classes were tried and dropped, because the
bound they look for lives in a preceding statement (or, for a decompressor
constructor, always downstream), so no correct implementation can silence them.
That would have meant ~15 permanent nolints on code that is already right. The
rules here that do work don't judge whether a bound exists, they route to a
wrapper that takes one: noDirectTempFiles, noDirectELFOpen.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
* test: pin allocation budgets on the alpm, deb, and changelog bounds
The bounds added for #5292, #5293 and #5294 are asserted by the error they
return. That keeps passing if the bound is removed and something else rejects
the input later, which is the failure these were written for. Each of these
measures bytes instead, and proves the fixture is really a bomb first so a
fixture that quietly stops being one fails rather than passing.
- alpm mtree: 16MB of newlines, well inside the 64MB byte cap, costs 16.5GB
uncapped against 238MB with maxMtreeLines. That 16.5GB is the measurement the
line cap was added for and it was recorded only in the commit message. Note
what the cap actually buys: 300k entries still cost a few hundred MB, per
concurrent cataloger.
- deb members: 1.28GB against 392KB. Both arms read with io.ReadAll on purpose,
since the stream itself never holds much whatever the cap says; what the cap
protects is a consumer that buffers, and the real one is a tar reader building
entries.
- snap changelog: 1.28GB against 175KB. This one has no explicit cap at all. It
is held by bufio.Scanner refusing a token past MaxScanTokenSize, which is
incidental, so switching to io.ReadAll or a bufio.Reader to pick up long lines
would remove it silently.
Nothing added for the kernel module reader: its copy is already
io.Copy(tempFile, io.LimitReader(rc, max+1)), so peak disk is bounded by
construction and heap is streaming. A heap budget would assert the wrong
resource, and the three existing subtests cover the cap, at-cap fidelity, and
spill cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
* test: pin allocation budgets on the ai and alpm byte caps
Follows the same pattern as the alpm line cap: measure bytes, and prove the
fixture is really a bomb first so one that quietly stops being a bomb fails
rather than passes.
- safetensors: 252MB against 2.6KB. The existing over-cap case deliberately
omits the body, since the guard rejects on the declared length before reading
anything. That is the right test for the guard but it would keep passing if
the check moved after the read, so this one delivers the bytes.
- gguf: 268MB against 168MB. copyHeader io.Copy's whatever it is handed, so
maxHeaderSize holds only because every caller wraps the reader first. This
pins that the limit is where the bound lives, so dropping the wrapper at a
call site fails here.
- alpm byte cap: 740MB against 132MB, the counterpart to the line cap budget.
Worth knowing for anyone writing the next one of these: a single enormous line
does not exercise the alpm byte cap. go-mtree runs its own bufio.Scanner and
refuses a token past 64KB, so that fixture fails as "token too long" before the
byte cap is consulted. The fixture here uses ordinary 1KB lines, enough of them
to pass 64MB while staying under the 300k line cap, so the byte cap is actually
the thing under test.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
* test: assert bytes retained instead of allocated for gguf copyHeader
the bounded arm writes into a bytes.Buffer, whose doubling growth costs a
multiple of what it holds and lands on a different power of two depending on
the platform. it measured 168MB locally and 320MB on CI, past the budget.
buf.Len() states the same property deterministically.
Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
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Signed-off-by: Alex Goodman <wagoodman@users.noreply.github.com>
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syft 1.51.1 Created-by: HarmonybrewBot Commit-by: HarmonybrewBot Merged-by: HarmonybrewBot Description: Created by `brew bump` --- Created with `brew bump-formula-pr`.<details> <summary>release notes</summary> <pre>### Bug Fixes - detect multi-arch ingress-nginx [PR [#5179](anchore/syft#5179) @CAOShurong] - keep the epoch when parsing RPM manifest packages [PR [#5201](anchore/syft#5201) @sueun-dev] - correct Apache Derby group ID in purl generation [PR [#5090](anchore/syft#5090) @Ankush-Pathak] - move image hardlink handling upstream during image indexing [PR [#5196](anchore/syft#5196) @wagoodman] - keep epoch-pinned requirements in the SBOM [PR [#5161](anchore/syft#5161) @sueun-dev] - Prevent unnecessary allocations when parsing compressed ELF sections [PR [#5187](anchore/syft#5187) @wagoodman] - honor the io.ReaderAt contract in readerAtAdapter [PR [#5186](anchore/syft#5186) @wagoodman] - Support grafana binary various version [Issue [#5059](anchore/syft#5059)] [PR [#5213](anchore/syft#5213) @pujitha24] - Excluded paths are still scanned and cause syft to crash [Issue [#3258](anchore/syft#3258)] - Dotnet: Incorrect relationship graph in case of using package locks [Issue [#5125](anchore/syft#5125)] [PR [#5143](anchore/syft#5143) @pujitha24] - Survive indexing not accessible files [Issue [#3286](anchore/syft#3286)] [PR [#5170](anchore/syft#5170) @addielaruee] - CPE target_sw not being set consistency for Rust crates [Issue [#3956](anchore/syft#3956)] [PR [#5167](anchore/syft#5167) @Xenira] - panic: nil pointer dereference in squashfs.(*File).Read when scanning snap (regression from 1.44.0) [Issue [#4989](anchore/syft#4989)] [PR [#5119](anchore/syft#5119) @kzantow] - golang remote license search attempts to resolve stdlib modules [Issue [#3149](anchore/syft#3149)] [PR [#5192](anchore/syft#5192) @luantaraschi] ### Additional Changes - gzip binary classifier reports false-positive GNU gzip from BusyBox multicall binary via applet symlink [Issue [#5171](anchore/syft#5171)] [PR [#5202](anchore/syft#5202) @spiffcs] - pnpm v5 lockfile: underscore peer-dep suffixes are not stripped from package versions [Issue [#5174](anchore/syft#5174)] [PR [#5175](anchore/syft#5175) @codeAnqiang-ma] - pnpm cataloger reads only the first YAML document: SBOM contains pnpm's own binaries and no project dependencies [Issue [#5168](anchore/syft#5168)] [PR [#5188](anchore/syft#5188) @hamodywe] ### Dependencies 72 dependency changes (70 updated, 1 added, 1 removed). 3 vulnerabilities remediated. **🟢 Remediated (3)** - [GO-2026-5158](GHSA-5wrp-cwcj-q835) (Medium) — go.opentelemetry.io/otel - [GO-2026-6179](https://go.dev/issue/80744) (High) — golang.org/x/mod - [GO-2026-6180](https://go.dev/issue/80745) (High) — golang.org/x/mod <details> <summary>Updated (70 packages)</summary> - cel.dev/expr `v0.25.1` → `v0.25.2` - cloud.google.com/go/auth `v0.18.2` → `v0.22.0` - cloud.google.com/go/iam `v1.5.3` → `v1.11.0` - cloud.google.com/go/logging `v1.13.1` → `v1.18.0` - cloud.google.com/go/longrunning `v0.8.0` → `v1.2.0` - cloud.google.com/go/monitoring `v1.24.3` → `v1.29.0` - 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io.ReaderAtcontract violations inreaderAtAdapter(the wrapper that lets the binary catalogers do random-access reads on squashfs files without buffering the whole thing):The fix is to read with
io.ReadFullinstead of a singleRead, so a caller gets either the bytes it asked for or an error.The impact is narrow: this only reaches squashfs-backed sources, so snaps in practice. Every other
GetUnionReaderbranch already returned a conformingReaderAt.