Denial of Service Vulnerability in IrRegular Expressions Package

CVE-2016-9954 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

The backtrack compilation code in the Irregex package (aka IrRegular Expressions) before 0.9.6 for Scheme allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted regular expression with a repeating pattern.

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