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net/mail: ParseAddress: quadratic complexity in consumeComment #78566

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Well-crafted inputs reaching ParseAddress, ParseAddressList,
and ParseDate were able to trigger excessive CPU exhaustion
and memory allocations.

This is CVE-2026-39820 and Go issue https://go.dev/issue/78566.


This was a PUBLIC track issue, tracked in http://b/500346169.

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