tool: archive-scan reads the archives inside, within a fixed amount of memory by donislawdev · Pull Request #199 · donislawdev/TestingFilesGenerator

donislawdev · 2026-10-19T21:32:48Z

archive-scan now reads the archives inside the one given, and nothing an archive holds can make it hold more memory than its limits say.

What changes for a user

Archives inside are read too. A ZIP in a ZIP, a JAR in a WAR, a DOCX in a TAR: each is read the same way, from memory, up to 16 deep. A trap in any of them makes the whole unsafe (exit 7), said with the way to it: lib 0.zip > lib 3.zip > ../x. A program that unpacks everything inside, as a virus scanner or an upload check does, unpacks those too.
Archives that explode only together are found: what every level unpacks to is held to the archive given, by the same rule as before (1 GiB and more than 100 times its size). A 130 KB archive of 16 archives of 4 GB each was "safe" before, and now stops after the first with the reason.
Not checked (exit 7, as an encrypted entry already is): an archive inside deeper than 16, larger than 256 MB, or of a kind the tool does not read (7z, RAR, bzip2...). An archive that holds itself ends at the depth limit.
The report is bounded. A note lists 100 findings and says "and N more", a name is shown up to 1 024 bytes with its length, and --json carries the same plus more, inside (the report of each archive inside that is not safe), inside_more and unpacked_all_bytes.
--unpacked_limit counts the archives inside.

Memory: two problems in the merged tool, measured

Peak working set of the process, polled every 20 ms, three runs unless noted:

archive	before	after
546 MB, 4 200 names of 64 KB, `--json`	1 873 - 2 416 MB, 256 MB of output	377 MB, 0.1 MB of output
8.8 MB TAR.GZ, 900 names set in 1 MB PAX headers	1 268 - 1 311 MB, "safe"	26 - 27 MB
1 000 000 empty entries	308 - 342 MB	286 - 388 MB
gzip of a ZIP of 300 MB (inside, size unknown)	-	235 - 240 MB, not checked
ZIP holding a 250 MB ZIP	-	267 - 269 MB
10 000 small archives inside	-	24 - 25 MB, 0.4 s
both ceilings full at once (names and 250 MB inside)	-	761 - 918 MB

The first: the report listed every finding whole, several times over. The second: archive/tar hands back a name set in a PAX header as a slice of the whole header (strconv.go, parsePAXRecord), and holding the slice held the header. Names are copied before they are kept.

How

One tree per run carries every limit: entries, places and bytes of names are counted once for the whole run, so a thousand archives inside are allowed what one archive is. Archives inside are held in pieces of 1 MiB that are never copied to grow, and released once read.
Depth is counted before an archive inside is opened, and one is read at a time, after the entry holding it was read whole and matched its checksum.
gzip is recognised by its method byte as well, and bzip2 by its block magic: a false match now costs exit 7.
No new dependency. File bytes of the generator are untouched.

Tests

Four new guards: traps inside (one and two levels, depth, too large, unread kind, explode together, held in several pieces), the --json report of an archive inside, the bounds of the report, and the heap while a TAR.GZ of padded PAX headers is read (fails at 192 MB without the copy, checked by hand). A fuzz seed with archives inside (60 s locally, 131 695 runs, nothing found). 14 new mutation entries, 2 re-pointed.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Archive scans now inspect supported nested archives up to 16 levels deep. Findings inside nested archives affect the overall safety result and include their archive paths.
- Reports include combined unpacked-size totals, show up to 100 findings of each kind, and indicate when additional findings are omitted.
- Nested archives that are unsupported, too large, or beyond scan limits are reported as unchecked.
Documentation
- Updated archive-scan guidance to explain nested scanning, combined unpacked-size limits, and report limits.

…f memory Archives inside the one given are read the same way, from memory and up to 16 deep, and a trap in any of them is a trap in the whole: a program that unpacks everything inside unpacks those too. A ZIP of archives that explode only together is found by the run's own rule against the archive given. Every limit is the run's, not each archive's: entries, places and bytes of names are counted once for the archive given and every one inside it, and at most 256 MB of archives inside is held at once, in pieces never copied to grow. An archive inside larger than that, deeper than that, or of a kind the tool does not read is reported as not checked. Two ways the merged tool held far more memory than its limits said: - the report listed every finding whole, so 4 200 names of 64 KB made 1.9 to 2.4 GB with --json and 256 MB of output. A note now lists 100 and counts the rest, a name is shown up to 1 024 bytes, and every name a report keeps adds up to 4 MB. Measured after: 377 to 421 MB, 0.1 MB out. - archive/tar hands back a name set in a PAX header as a slice of the whole header, so an 8.8 MB TAR.GZ held 1.3 GB. Names are copied before they are kept. Measured after: 27 MB. gzip is told by its method byte as well, and bzip2 by its block magic, since a false match now costs exit code 7. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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The archive scanner now scans supported nested archives up to 16 levels. It applies unpacked-size and resource limits across the scan tree, propagates nested findings to parent safety results, and bounds report contents. Documentation, locales, and tests cover the updated behavior.

Changes: Recursive archive scanning

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Shared scan state and aggregate limits `internal/tool/archivescan/archivescan.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/findings.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/inside.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/names.go`, `internal/guard/mutation/entries.py`	The scanner shares entry, name, and unpacked-byte accounting across scans. It adds nesting, memory, and reporting limits, and exposes aggregate unpacked totals in report data.
Detect and scan nested archives `internal/tool/archivescan/inside.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/sniff.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/tar.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/zip.go`, `internal/guard/archivescan_test.go`, `internal/guard/archivescaninside_test.go`, `internal/guard/mutation/entries.py`	ZIP and TAR readers retain eligible entry contents and scan recognized nested ZIP, TAR, and gzip archives. The scanner reports unsupported, oversized, and too-deep archives as unchecked. Tests cover nested scans, sniffing, limits, and memory use.
Propagate findings and bound reports `internal/tool/archivescan/inside.go`, `internal/tool/archivescan/report.go`, `internal/guard/archivescaninside_test.go`, `internal/guard/mutation/entries.py`, `CHANGELOG.md`, `README.md`, `internal/gui/text/locale/registry/.json`, `internal/gui/text/locale/said/.json`	Nested findings include their containing archive path and affect parent safety. Reports cap finding counts and displayed names, count omitted findings, and retain bounded nested reports. Documentation and locale messages describe the scan behavior and limits.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ArchiveScan
  participant Holding
  participant Look
  participant SharedTree
  participant ReportBuilder
  ArchiveScan->>Holding: retain recognized entry contents
  Holding->>Look: provide contents through ReaderAt
  Look->>SharedTree: scan nested archive with shared limits
  SharedTree->>ReportBuilder: pass nested findings and unpacked totals
  ReportBuilder-->>ArchiveScan: return bounded result and report

Suggested labels: enhancement, bug, security, performance, ui

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d8ebd

Scanning a crafted nested archive can use substantially more memory and produce a much larger report than promised. Bound retained archive paths before merging.

Pre-merge checks: 12 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Safe File Parsing		Archive findings can retain unbounded input names. `tree.keep` truncates only `f.name`; it retains existing `f.words` unchanged (`report.go:152-161`). `linked` still builds words with raw `core.Shown(…	Use `shownName` before constructing every `core.Said` from archive-controlled names, including both arguments in `linked` and the ZIP listed/local names, so retained `Said` values contain only bounded copies. Keep the `MostListedBytes` chec…
No Resource Leaks		The PR adds recursive scanning through `inside.go:257` (`c.look(h)`), so nested ZIP and gzip archives now create decompressor streams. `tar.go:44` creates a `*gzip.Reader` without `Close`, and `zip.go…	Close every decompressor on all paths. Add a deferred `z.Close()` immediately after successful `gzip.NewReader` in `scan.gzip`. Add a deferred close for `zipScan.inflate` after creating the `zipScan` in `scan.zip`, or close it in a single c…

Passed checks: 12 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check		Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check		The title clearly describes the main change: archive-scan now reads nested archives while using a fixed memory limit. It is specific, plain-language, and within the length limit.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Tests For Changed Behavior		The PR changes archive-scan runtime behavior and adds direct tests in `internal/guard/archivescaninside_test.go` for nested findings, depth and size limits, unsupported formats, combined expansion, re…
No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers		The pull-request diff adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env files. Added lines contain no credentials, tokens, API keys, emails, IP addresses, private URLs, or hardcoded abs…
No Hardcoded Ui Styling		The pull request does not add or change GUI code in the checked UI technologies. Its only `internal/gui` changes are English and Polish locale JSON text for archive-scan messages. No colors, fonts, si…
No Obvious Performance Problems		No explicit performance failure condition is introduced. The changed archive scanner performs sequential reads and bounded recursive scans, with depth, held-memory, finding, and nested-report limits i…
Desktop Robustness		No custom-check failure is introduced. The PR only extends the existing archive-scan read operation. It keeps the existing progress callback and context cancellation, checks the context during ZIP/TAR…
System Changes Are Reversible		The PR changes archive scanning, in-memory buffering, reporting, tests, and localization. The changed implementation only reads archive input and uses `io.Reader`/`io.ReaderAt`; no network filters, pr…
Clear User-Facing Text		PASS: The PR changes archive-scan documentation and localized result messages, but adds no buttons or confirmations. The new text states the nested-archive limits with units and ranges (16 levels and …
Scope, Duplication And Docs		No scope, duplication, or documentation violation is present. The diff is limited to archive-scan implementation, its guards and mutation cases, related English/Polish locale text, README.md, and CHAN…

Full details: Tests For Changed Behavior

Explanation

The PR changes archive-scan runtime behavior and adds direct tests in internal/guard/archivescaninside_test.go for nested findings, depth and size limits, unsupported formats, combined expansion, report bounds, and memory use. It also updates exit-code coverage and fuzz seeds in archivescan_test.go. The test diff contains additions only: no tests were deleted, skipped, or weakened.

Full details: No Secrets Or Debug Leftovers

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The pull-request diff adds no CLAUDE.md, CLAUDE.local.md, AGENTS.md, .claude/, or .env files. Added lines contain no credentials, tokens, API keys, emails, IP addresses, private URLs, or hardcoded absolute local paths. No new debug output or debugger calls were found; the fmt.Println mutation string is pre-existing and unchanged.

Full details: No Hardcoded Ui Styling

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The pull request does not add or change GUI code in the checked UI technologies. Its only internal/gui changes are English and Polish locale JSON text for archive-scan messages. No colors, fonts, sizes, margins, paddings, corner radii, or copied UI controls were added.

Full details: No Obvious Performance Problems

Explanation

No explicit performance failure condition is introduced. The changed archive scanner performs sequential reads and bounded recursive scans, with depth, held-memory, finding, and nested-report limits in internal/tool/archivescan/inside.go and report.go. The GUI starts tools in a worker goroutine (internal/gui/window/tools.go:338-343), so scanning does not block the UI thread. No new UI collection, per-item external call, polling loop, or O(n²) collection processing is present.

Full details: Desktop Robustness

Explanation

No custom-check failure is introduced. The PR only extends the existing archive-scan read operation. It keeps the existing progress callback and context cancellation, checks the context during ZIP/TAR reads, and runs through the existing GUI job that blocks duplicate starts and waits on window close. The diff adds no asset-relative loading, settings/data writes, culture-sensitive parsing, destructive action, admin request, or network call.

Full details: System Changes Are Reversible

Explanation

The PR changes archive scanning, in-memory buffering, reporting, tests, and localization. The changed implementation only reads archive input and uses io.Reader/io.ReaderAt; no network filters, proxy, firewall, system time, process hooking, services, registry, drivers, or other listed system-state changes are introduced.

Full details: Clear User-Facing Text

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PASS: The PR changes archive-scan documentation and localized result messages, but adds no buttons or confirmations. The new text states the nested-archive limits with units and ranges (16 levels and 256 MB), explains unsupported, oversized, and too-deep archives, and reports the stopping cause. No raw exception is used as normal user-facing text, and the changed locations use consistent “archives inside” terminology.

Full details: Scope, Duplication And Docs

Explanation

No scope, duplication, or documentation violation is present. The diff is limited to archive-scan implementation, its guards and mutation cases, related English/Polish locale text, README.md, and CHANGELOG.md. The title and description cover recursive scanning, limits, report bounds, memory behavior, sniffing changes, and tests. README.md and CHANGELOG.md document the user-facing nested scanning, limits, unsupported formats, aggregate --unpacked_limit, and bounded reports. The only exported changes are additive Report fields and limit constants; no CLI argument, configuration format, or incompatible API change is shown.

Full details: Safe File Parsing

Explanation

Archive findings can retain unbounded input names. tree.keep truncates only f.name; it retains existing f.words unchanged (report.go:152-161). linked still builds words with raw core.Shown(name) and core.Shown(target) (tar.go:307-311), and ZIP name-collision text does the same (zip.go:128-130). A large PAX link name or malformed ZIP name can therefore cause excessive memory or output, including through the new nested-report path in deeper. The new holding.drop also cannot compile because it subtracts from boolean h.held (inside.go:200-204).

Resolution

Use shownName before constructing every core.Said from archive-controlled names, including both arguments in linked and the ZIP listed/local names, so retained Said values contain only bounded copies. Keep the MostListedBytes check before retaining the bounded words. Fix holding.drop to decrement h.t.held and reset h.held separately.

Full details: No Resource Leaks

Explanation

The PR adds recursive scanning through inside.go:257 (c.look(h)), so nested ZIP and gzip archives now create decompressor streams. tar.go:44 creates a *gzip.Reader without Close, and zip.go:260 creates/reuses an io.ReadCloser from flate.NewReader without closing it. The outer file is closed at archivescan.go:121, but inner streams are not closed on success, cancellation, or read errors.

Resolution

Close every decompressor on all paths. Add a deferred z.Close() immediately after successful gzip.NewReader in scan.gzip. Add a deferred close for zipScan.inflate after creating the zipScan in scan.zip, or close it in a single cleanup path before every return. Keep the existing f.Close() defer.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/guard/archivescaninside_test.go:
- Around line 131-132: Update the fixture in the test case identified by “text
that begins with the letters of bzip2” so its data starts with the valid bzip2
block-size prefix “BZh” followed by a digit, while remaining non-bzip2 content;
this ensures the test reaches the magic comparison.

Review comments at @internal/tool/archivescan/inside.go:
- Around line 248-249: Update the `h.over` handling to distinguish archives
exceeding `MostInside` from archives that only exceed the remaining capacity
because surrounding archives are held, and select a message that accurately
describes each case. Add the corresponding localization entry and update the
README wording so it does not claim every rejected archive exceeds the total
limit.
- Line 257: Update the child creation and retention flow around blank so the
stored path is cloned and truncated to MostShownName bytes, then reject children
whose path would push the tree’s listed-byte total past MostListedBytes before
retaining them. Charge the path bytes only for retained children, and add a
regression test using padded PAX names that checks retained names and the report
stay within their limits.

Review comments at @internal/tool/archivescan/report.go:
- Line 159: Update the name truncation in `keep` and `shownName` to back the
byte limit down to the nearest UTF-8 rune boundary before slicing, and reuse the
same boundary-safe truncation for both paths. Ensure the `Report` comment
describes the limit as up to `MostShownName` bytes cut on a character boundary.

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internal/tool/archivescan/findings.go
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