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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2021-27918

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 10, 2021
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

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

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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