#stack-overflow

#stack-overflow

Node.js/V8 makes a best-effort attempt to recover from stack space exhaustion with a catchable error, which frameworks have come to rely on for service availability, A bug that only reproduces when async_hooks are used would break this attempt, causing Node.js to exit with 7 directly without throwing a catchable error when recursions in user code exhaust the stack space. This makes applications whose recursion depth is controlled by unsanitized input vulnerable to Denial-of-Service attacks.

We clustered 91,954 cryptography-related questions on Stack Overflow and manually analyzed 383 to comprehend the crypto challenges developers face. Developers showed a lack of knowledge of fundamental concepts.