CVE-2020-7595: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

January 21, 2020 (updated December 8, 2021)

xmlStringLenDecodeEntities in parser.c in libxml2 has an infinite loop in a certain end-of-file situation.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7595

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