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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-b74t-ahas-6fav",
    "summary": "dhowden tag panic due to out-of-bounds read\nDue to improper bounds checking, a number of methods in dhowden tag before 0.0.0-20201120070457-d52dcb253c63 can trigger a panic due to attempted out-of-bounds reads. If the package is used to parse user supplied input, this may be used as a vector for a denial of service attack.",
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