CVE-2021-27918

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    CVE-2021-27918

    Published: 11 Mar 2021Last Modified: 9 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/MfiLYjG-RAw, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -13722418773b6a081816e8cc48131306565db1bd

    Affected versions

    go1.16

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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