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bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: bug#51733: 27.1; Detect impossible email addresses better
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 15:13:54 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.91 (gnu/linux)

On Jan 19 2022, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Consider somebody sending you an email containing @", characters in the
> name part, and then you decode the address, and then run the parsing
> function.  The attacker would then have a wide attack surface to trick
> the checker into checking the wrong parts of the address.

Isn't that the whole point of textsec?

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