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		Varriount on Feb 8, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas I get what a regular expression like that does, but what leads to it being executed?

Hackbraten on Feb 8, 2025 [–]

No idea. All I know is whenever I try to execute the module in e.g. VS Code's debugger, it somehow triggers the attack and enters a de-facto-endless 100%-CPU-load loop.

DonHopkins on Feb 8, 2025 | [–]

Now you have two problems!

https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...

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