Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption 'Resource Exhaustion' due to the parse and parsenat functions. An attacker can cause a denial of service by sending specially crafted inputs that are excessively long. Workaround Ensure that Fugit.parse...

CVE-2024-43380 fugit parse and parse_nat stall on lengthy input

fugit contains time tools for flor and the floraison group. The fugit "natural" parser, that turns "every wednesday at 5pm" into "0 17 3", accepted any length of input and went on attempting to parse it, not returning promptly, as expected. The parse call could hold the thread with no end in sigh...