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Regular Expression Denial of Service and Catastrophic Backtracking (snyk.io)
8 points by guypod 3441 days ago
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Thanks for adding. As a related aside, someone who read the post pointed me in the direction of http://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-j.... Apparently Stack Overflow had a 34 minute outage this past year due to user input that resulted in backtracking. What's crazy is how innocent the regex seemed, too.