[issue41712] REDoS in purge

[Zachary Ware]

Zachary Ware <zachary.ware at gmail.com> added the comment:

Does it matter?  This is not a library, it is a script used occasionally by a release manager, called manually, and the only input to the regex is provided via a command-line argument in that manual call.  I don't think Steve plans to REDoS himself :)

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components: +Installation, Windows -Library (Lib)
nosy: +paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
type: security -> behavior

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