cpython/Lib/email
wouter bolsterlee 989f6a3800
bpo-45001: Make email date parsing more robust against malformed input (GH-27946)
Various date parsing utilities in the email module, such as
email.utils.parsedate(), are supposed to gracefully handle invalid
input, typically by raising an appropriate exception or by returning
None.

The internal email._parseaddr._parsedate_tz() helper used by some of
these date parsing routines tries to be robust against malformed input,
but unfortunately it can still crash ungracefully when a non-empty but
whitespace-only input is passed. This manifests as an unexpected
IndexError.

In practice, this can happen when parsing an email with only a newline
inside a ‘Date:’ header, which unfortunately happens occasionally in the
real world.

Here's a minimal example:

    $ python
    Python 3.9.6 (default, Jun 30 2021, 10:22:16)
    [GCC 11.1.0] on linux
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> import email.utils
    >>> email.utils.parsedate('foo')
    >>> email.utils.parsedate(' ')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/usr/lib/python3.9/email/_parseaddr.py", line 176, in parsedate
        t = parsedate_tz(data)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.9/email/_parseaddr.py", line 50, in parsedate_tz
        res = _parsedate_tz(data)
      File "/usr/lib/python3.9/email/_parseaddr.py", line 72, in _parsedate_tz
        if data[0].endswith(',') or data[0].lower() in _daynames:
    IndexError: list index out of range

The fix is rather straight-forward: guard against empty lists, after
splitting on whitespace, but before accessing the first element.
2021-08-26 16:49:03 +02:00
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mime Issue #27445: Merge from 3.5 2016-09-08 19:42:11 +03:00
__init__.py #22508: Drop email __version__ string. It no longer means anything. 2014-10-03 13:02:47 -04:00
_encoded_words.py bpo-27397: Make email module properly handle invalid-length base64 strings (#7583) 2018-06-12 15:46:22 +03:00
_header_value_parser.py bpo-39040: Fix parsing of email mime headers with whitespace between encoded-words. (gh-17620) 2020-05-28 20:04:59 -04:00
_parseaddr.py bpo-45001: Make email date parsing more robust against malformed input (GH-27946) 2021-08-26 16:49:03 +02:00
_policybase.py [email] bpo-29478: Fix passing max_line_length=None from Compat32 policy (GH-595) 2017-06-11 23:43:41 -07:00
architecture.rst Fix typos in multiple .rst files (#1668) 2017-05-19 23:37:57 +03:00
base64mime.py bpo-43125: Fix: return expected type (str), not original value (bytes) in email/base64mime.py::body_encode (GH-24476) 2021-03-30 17:37:37 +09:00
charset.py bpo-36793: Remove unneeded __str__ definitions. (GH-13081) 2019-05-06 22:29:40 +03:00
contentmanager.py bpo-41402: Fix email ContentManager calling .encode() on bytes (GH-21631) 2021-08-09 18:45:41 +02:00
encoders.py #19957: Simplify encode_7or8bit now that _payload is always str. 2013-12-12 21:40:20 -05:00
errors.py bpo-30681: Support invalid date format or value in email Date header (GH-22090) 2020-10-26 17:31:06 -07:00
feedparser.py bpo-30835: email: Fix AttributeError when parsing invalid CTE (GH-13598) 2019-06-04 11:00:47 -07:00
generator.py bpo-27321 Fix email.generator.py to not replace a non-existent header. (GH-18074) 2020-10-19 15:49:19 -07:00
header.py bpo-27737: Allow whitespace only headers encoding (#13478) 2019-05-22 21:13:16 -04:00
headerregistry.py Remove comment about a private email.headerregistry (GH-24233) 2021-02-24 17:21:32 -04:00
iterators.py
message.py bpo-42892: fix email multipart attribute error (GH-26903) 2021-07-30 19:05:49 +02:00
parser.py Fix infinite loop in email folding logic (GH-12732) 2019-07-16 10:50:01 -07:00
policy.py bpo-33524: Fix the folding of email header when max_line_length is 0 or None (#13391) 2019-05-17 15:28:44 -04:00
quoprimime.py bpo-32297: Few misspellings found in Python source code comments. (#4803) 2017-12-14 13:04:53 +02:00
utils.py bpo-27513: email.utils.getaddresses() now handles Header objects (#13797) 2021-07-19 18:07:54 +02:00