The JavaScript package ecosystem hit a familiar but dangerous snag with CVE-2024-4068: a memory‑exhaustion vulnerability in the widely used NPM package braces that can be triggered by imbalanced brace input and lead to sustained denial of service by exhausting the JavaScript heap.
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Today's Visual Studio Extension from Stefan Tashev is one of those nice to haves, one of a kind that you get very used to and come to rely on. With Visual Studio 2015 and the .NET Compiler Platform (fka Roslyn), building an extension like this should become very much easier, but today it's...