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Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 03:10:18 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <konstantin.s.serebryany@...il.com>,
musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: buffer overflow in regcomp and a way to find more of those
* Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> [2015-03-20 21:30:16 -0400]:
> > > int main() {
> > > regex_t preg;
> > > const char *s = ".****\\Z$<\\0)_";
>
> Isn't the \0 an invalid backreference? Could it be getting processed
> in a way that's causing the slowdown, but simply rejected by glibc?
ah you were right the \0 causes the slow down here:
it switches to the backtracking mode and there are
many ways to backtrack on .****
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