cve-2021-27918
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-03-10 23:54
Modified
2024-08-03 21:33
Severity ?
Summary
encoding/xml in Go before 1.15.9 and 1.16.x before 1.16.1 has an infinite loop if a custom TokenReader (for xml.NewTokenDecoder) returns EOF in the middle of an element. This can occur in the Decode, DecodeElement, or Skip method.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAwMailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAwMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02Third Party Advisory
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