Revert "Fix for CVE-2023-27043"

rickprice · icanhasmath · commit ecc9d0f9911a · 2023-09-27T15:18:46.000-05:00
This reverts commit 61b1299.
diff --git a/Doc/library/email.utils.rst b/Doc/library/email.utils.rst
@@ -67,11 +67,6 @@ of the new API.
    *email address* parts.  Returns a tuple of that information, unless the parse
    fails, in which case a 2-tuple of ``('', '')`` is returned.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.7
-      For security reasons, addresses that were ambiguous and could parse into
-      multiple different addresses now cause ``('', '')`` to be returned
-      instead of only one of the *potential* addresses.
-
 
 .. function:: formataddr(pair, charset='utf-8')
 
@@ -94,7 +89,7 @@ of the new API.
    This method returns a list of 2-tuples of the form returned by ``parseaddr()``.
    *fieldvalues* is a sequence of header field values as might be returned by
    :meth:`Message.get_all <email.message.Message.get_all>`.  Here's a simple
-   example that gets all the recipients of a message:
+   example that gets all the recipients of a message::
 
       from email.utils import getaddresses
 
@@ -104,25 +99,6 @@ of the new API.
       resent_ccs = msg.get_all('resent-cc', [])
       all_recipients = getaddresses(tos + ccs + resent_tos + resent_ccs)
 
-   When parsing fails for a single fieldvalue, a 2-tuple of ``('', '')``
-   is returned in its place.  Other errors in parsing the list of
-   addresses such as a fieldvalue seemingly parsing into multiple
-   addresses may result in a list containing a single empty 2-tuple
-   ``[('', '')]`` being returned rather than returning potentially
-   invalid output.
-
-   Example malformed input parsing:
-
-   .. doctest::
-
-      >>> from email.utils import getaddresses
-      >>> getaddresses(['alice@example.com <bob@example.com>', 'me@example.com'])
-      [('', '')]
-
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.7
-      The 2-tuple of ``('', '')`` in the returned values when parsing
-      fails were added as to address a security issue.
-
 
 .. function:: parsedate(date)
 
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
@@ -900,15 +900,6 @@ therefore included in source distributions.
 (Contributed by Ryan Gonzalez in :issue:`11913`.)
 
 
-email
------
-
-* :func:`email.utils.getaddresses` and :func:`email.utils.parseaddr` now return
-  ``('', '')`` 2-tuples in more situations where invalid email addresses are
-  encountered instead of potentially inaccurate values.
-  (Contributed by Thomas Dwyer for :gh:`102988` to ameliorate CVE-2023-27043.)
-
-
 enum
 ----
 
@@ -2648,12 +2639,6 @@ from the URL. This is a mitigation for `CVE-2023-24329
 Notable security feature in 3.7.17.2
 ==================================
 
-email.utils.getaddresses and email.utils.parseaddr now return
-``('', '')`` 2-tuples in more situations where invalid email addresses are
-encountered instead of potentially inaccurate values.
-(Contributed by Thomas Dwyer for :gh:`102988` to ameliorate CVE-2023-27043.)
-
-
 Fixed an issue where instances of :class:`ssl.SSLSocket` were vulnerable to
 a bypass of the TLS handshake and included protections (like certificate
 verification) and treating sent unencrypted data as if it were
diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ def formataddr(pair, charset='utf-8'):
     If the first element of pair is false, then the second element is
     returned unmodified.
 
-    The optional charset is the character set that is used to encode
+    Optional charset if given is the character set that is used to encode
     realname in case realname is not ASCII safe.  Can be an instance of str or
     a Charset-like object which has a header_encode method.  Default is
     'utf-8'.
@@ -106,54 +106,12 @@ 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) or ('','') for each fieldvalue.
-
-    When parsing fails for a fieldvalue, a 2-tuple of ('', '') is returned in
-    its place.
-
-    If the resulting list of parsed address is not the same as the number of
-    fieldvalues in the input list a parsing error has occurred.  A list
-    containing a single empty 2-tuple [('', '')] is returned in its place.
-    This is done to avoid invalid output.
-    """
-    fieldvalues = [str(v) for v in fieldvalues]
-    fieldvalues = _pre_parse_validation(fieldvalues)
-    all = COMMASPACE.join(v for v in fieldvalues)
+    """Return a list of (REALNAME, EMAIL) for each fieldvalue."""
+    all = COMMASPACE.join(fieldvalues)
     a = _AddressList(all)
-    result = _post_parse_validation(a.addresslist)
-
-    n = 0
-    for v in fieldvalues:
-        n += v.count(',') + 1
-
-    if len(result) != n:
-        return [('', '')]
-
-    return result
+    return a.addresslist
 
 
 def _format_timetuple_and_zone(timetuple, zone):
@@ -251,18 +209,9 @@ def parseaddr(addr):
     Return a tuple of realname and email address, unless the parse fails, in
     which case return a 2-tuple of ('', '').
     """
-    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 ('', '')
-
+    addrs = _AddressList(addr).addresslist
+    if not addrs:
+        return '', ''
     return addrs[0]
 
 
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py
@@ -3213,90 +3213,15 @@ def test_getaddresses(self):
            [('Al Person', 'aperson@dom.ain'),
             ('Bud Person', 'bperson@dom.ain')])
 
-    def test_getaddresses_parsing_errors(self):
-        """Test for parsing errors from CVE-2023-27043"""
-        eq = self.assertEqual
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org(<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org)<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org<<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org><bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org@<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org,<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', 'alice@example.org'), ('', 'bob@example.com')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org;<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org:<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org.<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org"<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org[<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(['alice@example.org]<bob@example.com>']),
-           [('', '')])
-
-    def test_parseaddr_parsing_errors(self):
-        """Test for parsing errors from CVE-2023-27043"""
-        eq = self.assertEqual
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org(<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org)<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org<<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org><bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org@<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org,<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org;<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org:<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org.<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org"<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org[<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-        eq(utils.parseaddr(['alice@example.org]<bob@example.com>']),
-           ('', ''))
-
     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" <jason@dom.ain>']),
            [('', ''), ('Jason R. Mastaler', 'jason@dom.ain')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           [r'Pete(A nice \) chap) <pete(his account)@silly.test(his host)>']),
-           [('Pete (A nice ) chap his account his host)', 'pete@silly.test')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           ['(Empty list)(start)Undisclosed recipients  :(nobody(I know))']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           ['Mary <@machine.tld:mary@example.net>, , jdoe@test   . example']),
-           [('Mary', 'mary@example.net'), ('', ''), ('', 'jdoe@test.example')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           ['John Doe <jdoe@machine(comment).  example>']),
-           [('John Doe (comment)', 'jdoe@machine.example')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           ['"Mary Smith: Personal Account" <smith@home.example>']),
-           [('Mary Smith: Personal Account', 'smith@home.example')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           ['Undisclosed recipients:;']),
-           [('', '')])
-        eq(utils.getaddresses(
-           [r'<boss@nil.test>, "Giant; \"Big\" Box" <bob@example.net>']),
-           [('', 'boss@nil.test'), ('Giant; "Big" Box', 'bob@example.net')])
 
     def test_getaddresses_embedded_comment(self):
         """Test proper handling of a nested comment"""
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.17.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.17.rst
@@ -1,14 +1,3 @@
-.. date: 2023-09-11-20-07-52
-.. gh-issue:102988 
-.. nonce: GLWDMX
-.. release date: 2023-09-11
-.. section: Security
-
-email.utils.getaddresses and email.utils.parseaddr now return
-``('', '')`` 2-tuples in more situations where invalid email addresses are
-encountered instead of potentially inaccurate values.
-(Contributed by Thomas Dwyer for :gh:`102988` to ameliorate CVE-2023-27043.)
-
 .. date: 2023-08-22-17-39-12
 .. gh-issue: 108310
 .. nonce: fVM3sg
@@ -24,6 +13,7 @@ post-handshake TLS encrypted data.  Security issue reported as
 Oksman. Patch by Gregory P. Smith.
 
 ..
+
 .. date: 2023-06-05-04-07-52
 .. gh-issue: 103142
 .. nonce: GLWDMX
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-06-13-20-52-24.gh-issue-102988.Kei7Vf.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2023-06-13-20-52-24.gh-issue-102988.Kei7Vf.rst
