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StevenBlack / hosts

🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.
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## Inefficient regular expression #2634

Closed namka279 closed 1 week ago

namka279 commented 1 week ago

Inefficient regular expression

This part of the regular expression may cause exponential backtracking on strings containing many repetitions of '..'.

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_Originally posted by @github-advanced-security in https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pull/2400#discussion_r1290244171_

welcome[bot] commented 1 week ago

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funilrys commented 1 week ago

I can look into this, but please give us a working link and example that we can integrate into our tests.

Otherwise, I recommend closing this issue.

funilrys commented 1 week ago

Okay, I found the reference: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pull/2400#discussion_r1572687558

@StevenBlack, please close as per https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/pull/2400#discussion_r1573227094 .

Thank you for your time @namka279.