Repair ReDoS (issue #493, PR #494) #531
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This PR fixes #493 by patching a ReDoS vulnerability in the
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regexes.Full credit to @DarkTinia for the discovery and for #494, which this PR is based off of. However, this PR negates the need for adding third party regex libraries to the project.
The fix works by removing the lookbehinds from the relevant regular expressions. From my testing, this was sufficient to patch the ReDoS whilst not breaking any test cases.