[GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg] brace-expansion: DoS via unbounded expansion length causing an out-of-memory process crash - #8870
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Restricts GHSA-mh99-v99m-4gvg to the affected brace-expansion 5.x release line.
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- Sets the affected range to
5.0.0–5.0.7. - Removes the redundant last-known affected range.
- Updates the modification timestamp.
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There are security patches for the 1.x, 2.x and 3.x lines too so this should only apply to 5.x line and have separate advisories for other major versions.