changeset:   101222:8f7cb3b171f3
parent:      101220:811ccdee6f87
parent:      101221:0d015f6aba8b
user:        Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>
date:        Wed May 04 11:27:17 2016 +0300
files:       Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py Lib/xmlrpc/client.py Misc/NEWS
description:
Issue #26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags
instead of silently return incorrect result.


diff -r 811ccdee6f87 -r 8f7cb3b171f3 Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py
--- a/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py	Wed May 04 09:44:44 2016 +0300
+++ b/Lib/test/test_xmlrpc.py	Wed May 04 11:27:17 2016 +0300
@@ -223,6 +223,20 @@
             self.assertIs(type(newvalue), xmlrpclib.Binary)
             self.assertIsNone(m)
 
+    def test_loads_unsupported(self):
+        ResponseError = xmlrpclib.ResponseError
+        data = '<params><param><value><spam/></value></param></params>'
+        self.assertRaises(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.loads, data)
+        data = ('<params><param><value><array>'
+                '<value><spam/></value>'
+                '</array></value></param></params>')
+        self.assertRaises(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.loads, data)
+        data = ('<params><param><value><struct>'
+                '<member><name>a</name><value><spam/></value></member>'
+                '<member><name>b</name><value><spam/></value></member>'
+                '</struct></value></param></params>')
+        self.assertRaises(ResponseError, xmlrpclib.loads, data)
+
     def test_get_host_info(self):
         # see bug #3613, this raised a TypeError
         transp = xmlrpc.client.Transport()
diff -r 811ccdee6f87 -r 8f7cb3b171f3 Lib/xmlrpc/client.py
--- a/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py	Wed May 04 09:44:44 2016 +0300
+++ b/Lib/xmlrpc/client.py	Wed May 04 11:27:17 2016 +0300
@@ -640,6 +640,7 @@
         self._stack = []
         self._marks = []
         self._data = []
+        self._value = False
         self._methodname = None
         self._encoding = "utf-8"
         self.append = self._stack.append
@@ -669,6 +670,8 @@
         if tag == "array" or tag == "struct":
             self._marks.append(len(self._stack))
         self._data = []
+        if self._value and tag not in self.dispatch:
+            raise ResponseError("unknown tag %r" % tag)
         self._value = (tag == "value")
 
     def data(self, text):
diff -r 811ccdee6f87 -r 8f7cb3b171f3 Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Wed May 04 09:44:44 2016 +0300
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Wed May 04 11:27:17 2016 +0300
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #26873: xmlrpc now raises ResponseError on unsupported type tags
+  instead of silently return incorrect result.
+
 - Issue #26711: Fixed the comparison of plistlib.Data with other types.
 
 - Issue #24114: Fix an uninitialized variable in `ctypes.util`.