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     new d72e973  [ENHANCEMENT] Improve non-utf8 header char handling
d72e973 is described below

commit d72e973d15ff555d335a554c2efd71e345b2de2e
Author: Benoit TELLIER <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed Oct 28 22:01:57 2026 +0100

    [ENHANCEMENT] Improve non-utf8 header char handling
---
 .../java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMCommon.java    | 19 ++++++++----
 .../java/org/apache/james/jdkim/api/Headers.java   | 10 +++++++
 .../java/org/apache/james/jdkim/impl/Message.java  |  4 ++-
 .../test/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMTest.java | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMCommon.java 
b/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMCommon.java
index 853cdd1..919a679 100644
--- a/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMCommon.java
+++ b/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMCommon.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import org.apache.james.jdkim.exceptions.PermFailException;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.security.Signature;
 import java.security.SignatureException;
 import java.util.HashMap;
@@ -37,6 +38,14 @@ public abstract class DKIMCommon {
 
     private static final boolean DEEP_DEBUG = false;
 
+    /**
+     * Header fields are carried as Strings where each char is one raw octet
+     * (see {@link Headers}): ISO-8859-1 gives them back unchanged.
+     */
+    private static byte[] octets(String s) {
+        return s.getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
+    }
+
     protected static void updateSignature(Signature signature,
                                           boolean relaxed,
                                           CharSequence header,
@@ -45,17 +54,17 @@ public abstract class DKIMCommon {
             if (DEEP_DEBUG)
                 System.out
                         .println("#" + header.toString().toLowerCase() + ":-");
-            signature.update(header.toString().toLowerCase().getBytes());
-            signature.update(":".getBytes());
+            signature.update(octets(header.toString().toLowerCase(Locale.US)));
+            signature.update(octets(":"));
             String headerValue = fv.substring(fv.indexOf(':') + 1);
             headerValue = headerValue.replaceAll("\r\n[\t ]", " ");
             headerValue = headerValue.replaceAll("[\t ]+", " ");
             headerValue = headerValue.trim();
-            signature.update(headerValue.getBytes());
+            signature.update(octets(headerValue));
             if (DEEP_DEBUG)
                 System.out.println("#" + headerValue + "#");
         } else {
-            signature.update(fv.getBytes());
+            signature.update(octets(fv));
             if (DEEP_DEBUG)
                 System.out.println("#" + fv + "#");
         }
@@ -89,7 +98,7 @@ public abstract class DKIMCommon {
                 if (doneHeaders <= hl.size()) {
                     String fv = hl.get(hl.size() - doneHeaders);
                     updateSignature(signature, relaxedHeaders, header, fv);
-                    signature.update("\r\n".getBytes());
+                    signature.update(octets("\r\n"));
                     processedHeader.put(lowerCaseHeader, doneHeaders);
                 }
             }
diff --git a/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/api/Headers.java 
b/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/api/Headers.java
index 3e07cff..b7d0106 100644
--- a/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/api/Headers.java
+++ b/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/api/Headers.java
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@ package org.apache.james.jdkim.api;
 
 import java.util.List;
 
+/**
+ * Raw header fields of a message, as used for DKIM header canonicalization.
+ * <p>
+ * Each returned field is the raw field (name, colon and value, folding
+ * included, without the trailing CRLF) where every char is one octet of the
+ * message, as decoded with ISO-8859-1. Implementations must not decode the
+ * field with any other charset: canonicalization works on the raw octets
+ * (RFC 6376 section 3.4) and a lossy decoding would let signed bytes be
+ * altered without breaking the signature.
+ */
 public interface Headers {
 
     /**
diff --git a/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/impl/Message.java 
b/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/impl/Message.java
index 8e84063..b41de81 100644
--- a/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/impl/Message.java
+++ b/main/src/main/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/impl/Message.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.apache.james.mime4j.stream.MimeConfig;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.LinkedList;
 import java.util.List;
 
@@ -100,8 +101,9 @@ public class Message implements Headers {
             try {
                 mw.writeField(f, bos);
                 // writeField always ends with CRLF and we don't want it.
+                // ISO-8859-1 maps each raw octet to one char, losslessly.
                 byte[] fieldbytes = bos.toByteArray();
-                field = new String(fieldbytes, 0, fieldbytes.length - 2);
+                field = new String(fieldbytes, 0, fieldbytes.length - 2, 
StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
             } catch (IOException ignored) {
             }
             res2.add(field);
diff --git a/main/src/test/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMTest.java 
b/main/src/test/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMTest.java
index 09f7441..5a176eb 100644
--- a/main/src/test/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMTest.java
+++ b/main/src/test/java/org/apache/james/jdkim/DKIMTest.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 package org.apache.james.jdkim;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
+import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatThrownBy;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
@@ -41,6 +42,7 @@ import org.apache.james.jdkim.api.Headers;
 import org.apache.james.jdkim.api.Result;
 import org.apache.james.jdkim.api.SignatureRecord;
 import org.apache.james.jdkim.api.VerifierOptions;
+import org.apache.james.jdkim.exceptions.PermFailException;
 import org.apache.james.jdkim.impl.Message;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
@@ -146,6 +148,38 @@ public class DKIMTest {
 
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void nonUtf8BytesOfASignedHeaderShouldVerify() throws Exception {
+        byte[] mail = "From: [email protected]\r\nSubject: 
café\r\n\r\nbody\r\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
+        String field = dkimSigner.sign(new ByteArrayInputStream(mail));
+
+        InputStream in = new SequenceInputStream(
+                new ByteArrayInputStream((field + 
"\r\n").getBytes(StandardCharsets.US_ASCII)), new ByteArrayInputStream(mail));
+
+        assertThat(verifier.verify(in)).hasSize(1);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void alteringNonUtf8BytesOfASignedHeaderShouldBreakTheSignature() 
throws Exception {
+        assertTamperingNonUtf8HeaderBytesIsDetected(dkimSigner);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void 
alteringNonUtf8BytesOfASignedHeaderShouldBreakTheRelaxedSignature() throws 
Exception {
+        DKIMSigner relaxedSigner = new 
DKIMSigner(SIGNATURE_TEMPLATE.replace("c=simple", "c=relaxed"), 
TestKeys.privateKey);
+        assertTamperingNonUtf8HeaderBytesIsDetected(relaxedSigner);
+    }
+
+    private void assertTamperingNonUtf8HeaderBytesIsDetected(DKIMSigner 
signer) throws Exception {
+        byte[] mail = "From: [email protected]\r\nSubject: 
café\r\n\r\nbody\r\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
+        byte[] tampered = "From: [email protected]\r\nSubject: 
cafè\r\n\r\nbody\r\n".getBytes(StandardCharsets.ISO_8859_1);
+        String field = signer.sign(new ByteArrayInputStream(mail));
+
+        InputStream in = new SequenceInputStream(
+                new ByteArrayInputStream((field + 
"\r\n").getBytes(StandardCharsets.US_ASCII)), new 
ByteArrayInputStream(tampered));
+
+        assertThatThrownBy(() -> 
verifier.verify(in)).isInstanceOf(PermFailException.class);
+    }
 
     private ByteArrayInputStream readFileToByteArrayInputStream(String 
fileName) throws URISyntaxException, IOException {
         URL resource = this.getClass().getResource(fileName);


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