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Comment by milkshakes

3 hours ago

> It's a Bad Idea (TM) to compile a regular expression from an untrusted input.

i agree with you!

nevertheless,

> where we nevertheless treated a double free in Regexp compilation as a vulnerability after a comprehensive assessment

not sure what sort of comprehensive assessment is still called for at this point?

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