Where
-Infinity
0
Severity
5.3
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Gitoxide gix-mailmap before 0.35.0 contains a denial of service vulnerability that allows attackers to exhaust CPU through quadratic-time parsing in Snapshot::frombytes. Attackers can commit a crafted .mailmap with descending-ordered entries forcing repeated front inserts, blocking workers running log, blame, or shortlog for minutes.

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