New submission from Richard Brooksby :
It is not possible to loop over the headers of a message with an unparseable
date field using the "default" policy. This means that a poison email can
break email processing.
I expect to be able to process an email with an unparseable date field using
the "default" policy.
$ python3 --version
Python 3.6.7
$ python3
Python 3.6.7 (default, Oct 22 2018, 11:32:17)
[GCC 8.2.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import email
>>> import email.policy
>>> email.message_from_string('Date: not a parseable date',
>>> policy=email.policy.default).items()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/message.py", line 460, in items
for k, v in self._headers]
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/message.py", line 460, in
for k, v in self._headers]
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/policy.py", line 162, in header_fetch_parse
return self.header_factory(name, value)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/headerregistry.py", line 589, in __call__
return self[name](name, value)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/headerregistry.py", line 197, in __new__
cls.parse(value, kwds)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/headerregistry.py", line 306, in parse
value = utils.parsedate_to_datetime(value)
File "/usr/lib/python3.6/email/utils.py", line 210, in parsedate_to_datetime
*dtuple, tz = _parsedate_tz(data)
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
>>>
Related:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.headerregistry.html#email.headerregistry.DateHeader
does not specify what happens to the datetime field if a date header cannot be
parsed.
Related:
https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.utils.html#email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime
does not specify what happens if a date cannot be parsed.
Suggested tests: random fuzz testing of the contents of all email headers,
especially those with parsers in the header registry.
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components: email
messages: 330621
nosy: barry, r.david.murray, rptb1
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: email "default" policy raises exception iterating over unparseable date
headers
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7
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