Ok! I just confirmed this, I took down a live server! (On of my own)
All I had to do was put the email address in the contact form.
-David
On Oct 9, 1:13 pm, davisd <davisd.dav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After hours of debugging, I found that:
>
> from django.forms.fields import email_re
> email_re.match
> ('viewx3dtextx26q...@yahoo.comx26latlngx3d15854521645943074058')
>
> will cause CPU to shoot up 100% and the process will hang forever.
>
> Since this is the regex used to validate EmailField on forms, won't
> this DOS a live site?
>
> Where should I report this?
>
> Is there a better way to validate an email address?
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