GMS-2017-212: Regular Expression Denial of Service

September 21, 2017

The marked module is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service. Based on the information published in the public issue, 1k characters can block for around 6 seconds.

References

github.com/chjj/marked/issues/937

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