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This PR fixes a vulnerability where weak regex validation could lead to unhandled NA exceptions and DoS risks from user input.


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* 🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
* πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) in interactive `readline` prompts allowed arbitrarily large integers. This caused unexpected `NA` coercion via `as.integer()`, which then broke downstream `if` conditions, leading to process crashes or potential Denial of Service (DoS).
* 🎯 Impact: Process crash/DoS due to unexpected `condition has length > 1` errors when evaluated with `NA`.
* πŸ”§ Fix: Replaced weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) with strictly bounded exact-match validation (`^[12]$`) for choices 1 and 2.
* βœ… Verification: Verified with existing tests and added new explicit error-path testing using `mockery` for interactive inputs.
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* 🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
* πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) in interactive `readline` prompts allowed arbitrarily large integers. This caused unexpected `NA` coercion via `as.integer()`, which then broke downstream `if` conditions, leading to process crashes or potential Denial of Service (DoS).
* 🎯 Impact: Process crash/DoS due to unexpected `condition has length > 1` errors when evaluated with `NA`.
* πŸ”§ Fix: Replaced weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) with strictly bounded exact-match validation (`^[12]$`) for choices 1 and 2.
* βœ… Verification: Verified with existing tests and added new explicit error-path testing using `mockery` for interactive inputs.
* πŸ“¦ Added mockery to Suggests in DESCRIPTION to allow CI to pass.
* 🧹 Cleaned up top-level dummy test files and updated `.Rbuildignore` to fix `R CMD check` notes.
* 🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
* πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) in interactive `readline` prompts allowed arbitrarily large integers. This caused unexpected `NA` coercion via `as.integer()`, which then broke downstream `if` conditions, leading to process crashes or potential Denial of Service (DoS).
* 🎯 Impact: Process crash/DoS due to unexpected `condition has length > 1` errors when evaluated with `NA`.
* πŸ”§ Fix: Replaced weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) with strictly bounded exact-match validation (`^[12]$`) for choices 1 and 2.
* βœ… Verification: Verified with existing tests and added new explicit error-path testing using `mockery` for interactive inputs.
* πŸ“¦ Added mockery to Suggests in DESCRIPTION to allow CI to pass.
* 🧹 Cleaned up top-level dummy test files and updated `.Rbuildignore` to fix `R CMD check` notes.
* 🚨 Severity: CRITICAL
* πŸ’‘ Vulnerability: Weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) in interactive `readline` prompts allowed arbitrarily large integers. This caused unexpected `NA` coercion via `as.integer()`, which then broke downstream `if` conditions, leading to process crashes or potential Denial of Service (DoS).
* 🎯 Impact: Process crash/DoS due to unexpected `condition has length > 1` errors when evaluated with `NA`.
* πŸ”§ Fix: Replaced weak regex validation (`^[0-9]+$`) with strictly bounded exact-match validation (`^[12]$`) for choices 1 and 2.
* βœ… Verification: Verified with existing tests and added new explicit error-path testing using `mockery` for interactive inputs.
* πŸ“¦ Added mockery to Suggests in DESCRIPTION to allow CI to pass.
* 🧹 Cleaned up top-level dummy test files and updated `.Rbuildignore` to fix `R CMD check` notes.

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Closing as superseded by #193. Both PRs make the same three production changes from ^[0-9]+$ to ^[12]$, but #193 is the focused canonical branch with explicit oversized-input and bounded-retry regression coverage for all three prompts.

This branch additionally deletes root-level files, changes .Rbuildignore, and adds generated journal material that is not required for the validation fix. Those unrelated changes increase review surface without improving the production contract. No checks, reviews, or approvals from this PR transfer to #193.

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Closing as superseded by #193. Both PRs make the same three production changes from ^[0-9]+$ to ^[12]$, but #193 is the focused canonical branch with explicit oversized-input and bounded-retry regression coverage for all three prompts.

This branch additionally deletes root-level files, changes .Rbuildignore, and adds generated journal material that is not required for the validation fix. Those unrelated changes increase review surface without improving the production contract. No checks, reviews, or approvals from this PR transfer to #193.

Understood. Acknowledging that this work is now obsolete and stopping work on this task.

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