[GHSA-73rr-hh4g-fpgx] jsdiff has a Denial of Service vulnerability in parsePatch and applyPatch

[G-Rath]

Updates

• Affected products
• References

Comments
Updated impacted versions after backporting

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Pull request overview

This pull request updates a GitHub security advisory for a Denial of Service vulnerability in the jsdiff library (npm package "diff"). The update reflects backported security fixes to multiple major version lines of the package.

Changes:

• Narrowed the version range for the initial affected versions from "0" to "6.0.0"
• Added two new affected version ranges for backported fixes: 5.0.0 to 5.2.2, and 0 to 4.0.4
• Added a reference to GitHub issue #653 for additional context

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