bpo-30835: email: Fix AttributeError when parsing invalid CTE (GH-13598)

* bpo-30835: email: Fix AttributeError when parsing invalid Content-Transfer-Encoding

Parsing an email containing a multipart Content-Type, along with a
Content-Transfer-Encoding containing an invalid (non-ASCII-decodable) byte
will fail. email.feedparser.FeedParser._parsegen() gets the header and
attempts to convert it to lowercase before comparing it with the accepted
encodings, but as the header contains an invalid byte, it's returned as a
Header object rather than a str.

Cast the Content-Transfer-Encoding header to a str to avoid this.

Found using the AFL fuzzer.

Reported-by: Daniel Axtens <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <[email protected]>

* Add email and NEWS entry for the bugfix.
(cherry picked from commit aa79707)

Co-authored-by: Abhilash Raj <[email protected]>

Author: miss-islington

Lib/email/feedparser.py

@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ def _parsegen(self):
                 self._cur.set_payload(EMPTYSTRING.join(lines))
                 return
             # Make sure a valid content type was specified per RFC 2045:6.4.
-            if (self._cur.get('content-transfer-encoding', '8bit').lower()
+            if (str(self._cur.get('content-transfer-encoding', '8bit')).lower()
                     not in ('7bit', '8bit', 'binary')):
                 defect = errors.InvalidMultipartContentTransferEncodingDefect()
                 self.policy.handle_defect(self._cur, defect)

Lib/test/test_email/test_email.py

@@ -1466,6 +1466,15 @@ def test_mangled_from_with_bad_bytes(self):
         g.flatten(msg)
         self.assertEqual(b.getvalue(), source + b'>From R\xc3\xb6lli\n')
 
+    def test_mutltipart_with_bad_bytes_in_cte(self):
+        # bpo30835
+        source = textwrap.dedent("""\
+            From: [email protected]
+            Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="1"
+            Content-Transfer-Encoding: \xc8
+        """).encode('utf-8')
+        msg = email.message_from_bytes(source)
+
 
 # Test the basic MIMEAudio class
 class TestMIMEAudio(unittest.TestCase):

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-05-27-15-29-46.bpo-30835.3FoaWH.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Fixed a bug in email parsing where a message with invalid bytes in
+content-transfer-encoding of a multipart message can cause an AttributeError.
+Patch by Andrew Donnellan.