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Re:How does one build large front end apps without using a f... by csande17 on Friday October 17, 2025 @08:26AM (#45615961)
Dubious "regular expression denial of service" vulnerabilities seem like a general issue with the CVE bureaucracy lately. Like, maybe CVE-2020-10735 had a point that Python's default "int" type having unbounded size and a quadratic-time "str()" was a bit of a footgun, but now it's getting to a point where any use of backtracking in any context is just asking for a "high severity" ticket from the regex police.

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