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[GHSA] GHSA-2wm5-q62r-hmrv (medium) — Colord: Slow rejection of oversized malformed color strings

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-09-08

GHSA-2wm5-q62r-hmrv Severity: medium CVE: CVE-2026-85062

Colord: Slow rejection of oversized malformed color strings

### Impact

`colord`'s CSS color string matchers described a number as `([+-]?\d*\.?\d+)`. In that form `\d*` and `\d+` can match the same digits, so a run of *n* digits can be divided between them in O(n²) ways, and rejecting an input retries every division. Parsing is synchronou

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Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2wm5-q62r-hmrv