Description
This affects the package html-parse-stringify before 2.0.1; all versions of package html-parse-stringify2. Sending certain input could cause one of the regular expressions that is used for parsing to backtrack, freezing the process.
Remediation
References
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTMLPARSESTRINGIFY-1079306
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTMLPARSESTRINGIFY2-1079307
https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/html-parse-stringify/blob/master/lib/parse.js%23L2
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1080633
https://github.com/rayd/html-parse-stringify2/blob/master/lib/parse.js%23L2
https://github.com/HenrikJoreteg/html-parse-stringify/commit/c7274a48e59c92b2b7e906fedf9065159e73fe12
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