diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e4caab81..de089efa 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 coming in the next release:
 
+6.0.4 - 13 June 2021
+    *   Prevent a UnicodeDecodeError crash that may occur when
+        the title element's type attribute exists but is empty. (#277)
+
 6.0.3 - 12 June 2021
     *   Fix an issue with the HTTP request status on Python >= 3.9.
 
diff --git a/feedparser/mixin.py b/feedparser/mixin.py
index 5f5c8607..49db2be8 100644
--- a/feedparser/mixin.py
+++ b/feedparser/mixin.py
@@ -506,9 +506,7 @@ def pop(self, element, strip_whitespace=1):
         if base64 and self.contentparams.get('base64', 0):
             try:
                 output = base64.decodebytes(output.encode('utf8')).decode('utf8')
-            except binascii.Error:
-                pass
-            except binascii.Incomplete:
+            except (binascii.Error, binascii.Incomplete, UnicodeDecodeError):
                 pass
 
         # resolve relative URIs