On: setBigTimeout

[sfvisser]

Don’t ever use attacker controlled data directly in your source code without validation. Don’t blame setTimeout for this, it’s impolite!

[n2d4 → sfvisser]

The problem is the validation. You'd expect you just have to validate a lower bound, but you also have to validate an upper bound.

[leptons → n2d4]

It's user input, you have to validate all the bounds, and filter out whatever else might cause problems. Not doing so is a a problem with the programmer, not setTimeout.