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Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package golang-src Open this link in a new tab

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-GOLANGSRC-4416601
  • published 26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed 10 Mar 2021
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Introduced: 10 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-27918 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-835 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream golang-src package and not the golang-src package as distributed by RHEL.

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.