[WIP] bpo-37461: Fix email.parser.Parse hang

[n0npax]

https://bugs.python.org/issue37461

https://bugs.python.org/issue37461

[tirkarthi]

Please move the tests to Lib/test/test_email/test_parser.py and remove the Lib/email/test/__init__.py file.

Edit : There is also Lib/test/test_email/test__header_value_parser.py with similar tests that might be a better location.

[n0npax]

I've got 2 broken tests and I would appreciate some guidance.
Is changing function _get_ptext_to_endchars to return _get_ptext_to_endchars('"', '"') -> '"', "", False bad approach?

[tirkarthi]

Test case failures usually mean there is a regression where some behavior that was guaranteed previously is now being changed and there should be a good reason to change the tests. Sorry, email is not my expertise and maybe @maxking could help.

[guidovranken]

This is a slightly different PoC, and this still hangs after applying the PR

from email.parser import BytesParser, Parser
from email.policy import default
payload = "\x43\x6f\x6e\x74\x65\x6e\x74\x2d\x54\x79\x70\x65\x3a\x78\x3b\x61\x72\x1b\x2a\x3d\x22\x73\x4f\x27\x23\x61\xff\xff\x27\x5c\x22\x3d\x72\x2d\x54\x79\x8e\xc4\x9e\x8d\xe4\xd5\xc2\x83\x7c\x7c\x7c"
Parser(policy=default).parsestr(payload)

[maxking]

Thanks @n0npax for this patch!

+1 on what @guidovranken says, I was going to comment but you beat me to it.

I probably won't be able help too much for next 15 days, since I am travelling, but this PR doesn't fix the real problem. I was able to reproduce the problem with:

from email.parser import BytesParser, Parser
from email.policy import default


payload = 'Content-Type:x;\x1b*="\'G\'\\"g'
msg = Parser(policy=default).parsestr(payload)

Note the last "g in the end of the string, which caused the fix of value == '"' to fail. I am not sure about where the end " of the quoted-printable is supposed to be parsed.

Please make sure we don't delete any tests without proper reasoning about why we need to delete them :)

[n0npax]

I've got no idea how to solve this in a proper way. Closing PR.

[n0npax]

Sorry for fuss guys. Thanks for suggestions.