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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2024-24784

Comments in display names are incorrectly handled in net/mail

Description

The ParseAddressList function incorrectly handles comments (text within parentheses) within display names. Since this is a misalignment with conforming address parsers, it can result in different trust decisions being made by programs using different parsers.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Go standard library net/mail

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 1.21.8affected
  • 1.22.0-0 to < 1.22.1affected

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