pythongh-102988: Detect email address parsing errors and return empty…

… tupleto indicate the parsing error (old API)

Lib/email/utils.py

@@ -106,12 +106,51 @@ def formataddr(pair, charset='utf-8'):
     return address
 
 
+def _pre_parse_validation(email_header_fields):
+    accepted_values = []
+    for v in email_header_fields:
+        s = v.replace('\\(', '').replace('\\)', '')
+        if s.count('(') != s.count(')'):
+            v = "('', '')"
+        accepted_values.append(v)
+
+    return accepted_values
+
+
+def _post_parse_validation(parsed_email_header_tuples):
+    accepted_values = []
+    # The parser would have parsed a correctly formatted domain-literal
+    # The existence of an [ after parsing indicates a parsing failure
+    for v in parsed_email_header_tuples:
+        if '[' in v[1]:
+            v = ('', '')
+        accepted_values.append(v)
+
+    return accepted_values
+
 
 def getaddresses(fieldvalues):
-    """Return a list of (REALNAME, EMAIL) for each fieldvalue."""
-    all = COMMASPACE.join(str(v) for v in fieldvalues)
+    """Return a list of (REALNAME, EMAIL) for each fieldvalue,
+    unless the parse fails, in which case return a 2-tuple of ('', '')
+    will be returned in it's place.
+
+    If the resulting list is greater than number of items in the fieldvalues
+    list, a list containing a single empty 2-tuple [('', '')] will be returned.
+    """
+    fieldvalues = [str(v) for v in fieldvalues]
+    fieldvalues = _pre_parse_validation(fieldvalues)
+    all = COMMASPACE.join(v for v in fieldvalues)
     a = _AddressList(all)
-    return a.addresslist
+    result = _post_parse_validation(a.addresslist)
+
+    n = 0
+    for v in fieldvalues:
+        n += v.count(',') + 1
+
+    if len(result) != n:
+        return [('', '')]
+
+    return result
 
 
 def _format_timetuple_and_zone(timetuple, zone):
@@ -212,9 +251,18 @@ def parseaddr(addr):
     Return a tuple of realname and email address, unless the parse fails, in
     which case return a 2-tuple of ('', '').
     """
-    addrs = _AddressList(addr).addresslist
-    if not addrs:
-        return '', ''
+    if isinstance(addr, list):
+        addr = addr[0]
+
+    if not isinstance(addr, str):
+        return ('', '')
+
+    addr = _pre_parse_validation([addr])[0]
+    addrs = _post_parse_validation(_AddressList(addr).addresslist)
+
+    if not addrs or len(addrs) > 1:
+        return ('', '')
+
     return addrs[0]
 
 

Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py

@@ -3319,15 +3319,90 @@ def test_getaddresses(self):
            [('Al Person', '[email protected]'),
             ('Bud Person', '[email protected]')])
 
+    def test_getaddresses_parsing_errors(self):
+        """Test for parsing errors from CVE-2023-27043"""
+        eq = self.assertEqual
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected](<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected])<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected]<<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected]><[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected]@<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected],<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '[email protected]'), ('', '[email protected]')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected];<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected]:<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected].<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected]"<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected][<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[email protected]]<[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '')])
+
+    def test_parseaddr_parsing_errors(self):
+        """Test for parsing errors from CVE-2023-27043"""
+        eq = self.assertEqual
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected](<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected])<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected]<<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected]><[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected]@<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected],<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected];<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected]:<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected].<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected]"<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected][<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+        eq(utils.parseaddr(['[email protected]]<[email protected]>']),
+           ('', ''))
+
     def test_getaddresses_nasty(self):
         eq = self.assertEqual
         eq(utils.getaddresses(['foo: ;']), [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           ['[]*-- =~$']),
-           [('', ''), ('', ''), ('', '*--')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(['[]*-- =~$']), [('', '')])
         eq(utils.getaddresses(
            ['foo: ;', '"Jason R. Mastaler" <[email protected]>']),
            [('', ''), ('Jason R. Mastaler', '[email protected]')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['Pete(A nice \) chap) <pete(his account)@silly.test(his host)>']),
+           [('Pete (A nice ) chap his account his host)', '[email protected]')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['(Empty list)(start)Undisclosed recipients  :(nobody(I know))']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['Mary <@machine.tld:[email protected]>, , jdoe@test   . example']),
+           [('Mary', '[email protected]'), ('', ''), ('', '[email protected]')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['John Doe <jdoe@machine(comment).  example>']),
+           [('John Doe (comment)', '[email protected]')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['"Mary Smith: Personal Account" <[email protected]>']),
+           [('Mary Smith: Personal Account', '[email protected]')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['Undisclosed recipients:;']),
+           [('', '')])
+        eq(utils.getaddresses(
+           ['<[email protected]>, "Giant; \"Big\" Box" <[email protected]>']),
+           [('', '[email protected]'), ('Giant;  Big  Box', '[email protected]')])
 
     def test_getaddresses_embedded_comment(self):
         """Test proper handling of a nested comment"""