Vulnerability GO-2026-6860

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16 days ago
October 27, 2026 at 09:16 PM UTC
Avoid quadratic complexity when coalescing text nodes in html in golang.org/x/net
<0.62.0
<0.62.0

Summary

Avoid quadratic complexity when coalescing text nodes in html in golang.org/x/net

Details

When coalescing adjacent text nodes in addText and fosterParent, appending to an existing TextNode's Data via string concatenation (n.Data += text) reallocated and copied the accumulated string on every token. Inputs containing many short text runs separated by ignored end tags (such as "a") caused O(n^2) allocations and byte copies.

Accumulate coalesced text in per-node byte slices during parsing and materialize Data strings once at the end of parse.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
16 days ago
October 27, 2026 at 09:16 PM UTC
Fixed (v0.62.0)
17 days ago
October 27, 2026 at 07:00 PM UTC
Last Modified
16 days ago
October 27, 2026 at 09:30 PM UTC