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Catastrophic backtracking regex condition #64

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tregoning opened this issue Jul 18, 2021 · 0 comments
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Catastrophic backtracking regex condition #64

tregoning opened this issue Jul 18, 2021 · 0 comments

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tregoning commented Jul 18, 2021 •
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Looks like the current linkify regular expression does not handle well strings with a significant number of whitespaces characters in a row (potentially a Catastrophic backtracking regex condition / ReDoS?)

Here is a reduced test case that replicates the root issue showing the potential regex fix and the current regex crashing
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