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Malicious npm Packages Inject SSH Backdoors via Typosquatted Libraries
Socket’s threat research team has detected six malicious npm packages typosquatting popular libraries to insert SSH backdoors.
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Parse an SMTP (RFC-5321) address.
Length limitations are not checked.
Technically a local-part of a Mailbox address is limited to 64 octets or less, see: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.1
Also, domain names are limited to 255 octets, see: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.1.2
And individual labels within a domain name are limited to 63 octets or less, see: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035 section 2.3.4. Size limits
However, RFC-5321 section 4.5.3.1. “Size Limits and Minimums” says:
“To the maximum extent possible, implementation techniques that impose no limits on the length of these objects should be used.”
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Parse an SMTP (RFC-5321) address
The npm package smtp-address-parser receives a total of 242,609 weekly downloads. As such, smtp-address-parser popularity was classified as popular.
We found that smtp-address-parser demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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