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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-27918: Moderate: go-toolset:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-3076)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-27918: Moderate: go-toolset:rhel8 security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-3076)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/11/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-go-toolset
  • alma-upgrade-golang
  • alma-upgrade-golang-bin
  • alma-upgrade-golang-docs
  • alma-upgrade-golang-misc
  • alma-upgrade-golang-race
  • alma-upgrade-golang-src
  • alma-upgrade-golang-tests

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