Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting golang-src package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.09% (41st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RHEL7-GOLANGSRC-4442750
- published 26 Jul 2021
- disclosed 10 Mar 2021
Introduced: 10 Mar 2021
CVE-2021-27918 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 golang-src.
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.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
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