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HIGH7.5

GO-2021-0234

Infinite loop when decoding inputs in encoding/xml

Quick fix

GO-2021-0234 — stdlib: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

go get stdlib@v1.15.9

Details

The Decode, DecodeElement, and Skip methods of an xml.Decoder provided by xml.NewTokenDecoder may enter an infinite loop when operating on a custom xml.TokenReader which returns an EOF in the middle of an open XML element.

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Affected packages

Go/stdlib
Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.15.9
Fixgo get stdlib@v1.15.9

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