hardening against bad regexes

src/js/cosmetic-filtering.js

@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ var µb = µBlock;
 var encode = JSON.stringify;
 var decode = JSON.parse;
 
+var isBadRegex = function(s) {
+    try {
+        void new RegExp(s);
+    } catch (ex) {
+        isBadRegex.message = ex.toString();
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+};
+
 /******************************************************************************/
 /*
 var histogram = function(label, buckets) {
@@ -252,11 +262,11 @@ FilterParser.prototype.reset = function() {
 
 /******************************************************************************/
 
-FilterParser.prototype.parse = function(s) {
+FilterParser.prototype.parse = function(raw) {
     // important!
     this.reset();
 
-    var matches = this.reParser.exec(s);
+    var matches = this.reParser.exec(raw);
     if ( matches === null || matches.length !== 4 ) {
         this.cosmetic = false;
         return this;
@@ -301,20 +311,43 @@ FilterParser.prototype.parse = function(s) {
     // Examples:
     //   focus.de##script:contains(/uabInject/)
     //   focus.de##script:contains(uabInject)
-    if ( this.suffix.charAt(0) === 's' && this.reScriptContains.test(this.suffix) ) {
+
+    // Inline script tag filter?
+    if (
+        this.suffix.charAt(0) !== 's' ||
+        this.reScriptContains.test(this.suffix) === false )
+    {
+        return this;
+    }
+
     // Currently supported only as non-generic selector. Also, exception
     // script tag filter makes no sense, ignore.
     if ( this.hostnames.length === 0 || this.unhide === 1 ) {
         this.invalid = true;
         return this;
     }
+
     var suffix = this.suffix;
     this.suffix = 'script//:';
+
+    // Plain string-based?
     if ( suffix.charAt(16) !== '/' || suffix.slice(-2) !== '/)' ) {
         this.suffix += suffix.slice(16, -1).replace(/[.*+?^${}()|[\]\\]/g, '\\$&');
-        } else {
-            this.suffix += suffix.slice(17, -2).replace(/\\/g, '\\');
+        return this;
     }
+
+    // Regex-based
+    this.suffix += suffix.slice(17, -2).replace(/\\/g, '\\');
+
+    // Valid regex?
+    if ( isBadRegex(this.suffix) ) {
+        console.error(
+            "uBlock Origin> discarding bad regular expression-based cosmetic filter '%s': '%s'",
+            raw,
+            isBadRegex.message
+        );
+        this.invalid = true;
+        return this;
     }
 
     return this;

src/js/static-net-filtering.js

@@ -176,6 +176,16 @@ var isFirstParty = function(firstPartyDomain, hostname) {
     return c === '.' || c === '';
 };
 
+var isBadRegex = function(s) {
+    try {
+        void new RegExp(s);
+    } catch (ex) {
+        isBadRegex.message = ex.toString();
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+};
+
 var alwaysTruePseudoRegex = {
     match: { '0': '', index: 0 },
     exec: function(s) {
@@ -1539,6 +1549,14 @@ FilterParser.prototype.parse = function(raw) {
     if ( s.charAt(0) === '/' && s.slice(-1) === '/' && s.length > 2 ) {
         this.isRegex = true;
         this.f = s.slice(1, -1);
+        if ( isBadRegex(this.f) ) {
+            console.error(
+                "uBlock Origin> discarding bad regular expression-based network filter '%s': '%s'",
+                raw,
+                isBadRegex.message
+            );
+            this.unsupported = true;
+        }
         return this;
     }