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A single well formed message of about 1.6 MB blocked the event loop for one to twenty seconds depending on the host, and inline `message/rfc822` parts multiplied the cost, since each nested message carried its own header budget.\n\nAny application that parses untrusted mail with postal-mime 3.0.0 through 4.0.7, including the exported `decodeWords()` helper, is affected. There is no confidentiality or integrity impact.\n\n### Patches\n\nFixed in 4.0.8. The pad check now tracks the last appended word instead of testing the joined text, so decoding is linear in the header length. 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