
Vulnerabilities
Regular Expression Denial of Service Prevention Checklist
Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions turns pattern matching into an exponential resource drain that exposes services to denial of service attacks.
Everything TechSec Observer has reported about denial of service: 2 stories, newest first. Part of our Vulnerabilities coverage.

Catastrophic backtracking in regular expressions turns pattern matching into an exponential resource drain that exposes services to denial of service attacks.

Microsoft has released updates for System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to address a high-severity denial of service vulnerability triggered by inefficient algorithmic complexity.