bpo-32981: Fix catastrophic backtracking vulns (GH-5955)

* Prevent low-grade poplib REDOS (CVE-2018-1060)

The regex to test a mail server's timestamp is susceptible to
catastrophic backtracking on long evil responses from the server.

Happily, the maximum length of malicious inputs is 2K thanks
to a limit introduced in the fix for CVE-2013-1752.

A 2KB evil response from the mail server would result in small slowdowns
(milliseconds vs. microseconds) accumulated over many apop calls.
This is a potential DOS vector via accumulated slowdowns.

Replace it with a similar non-vulnerable regex.

The new regex is RFC compliant.
The old regex was non-compliant in edge cases.

* Prevent difflib REDOS (CVE-2018-1061)

The default regex for IS_LINE_JUNK is susceptible to
catastrophic backtracking.
This is a potential DOS vector.

Replace it with an equivalent non-vulnerable regex.

Also introduce unit and REDOS tests for difflib.

Co-authored-by: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Co-authored-by: Jamie Davis <davisjam@vt.edu>
(cherry picked from commit 0e6c8ee2358a2e23117501826c008842acb835ac)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/difflib.py b/Lib/difflib.py
index 8296471..043a169 100644
--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -1083,7 +1083,7 @@ class Differ:
 
 import re
 
-def IS_LINE_JUNK(line, pat=re.compile(r"\s*#?\s*$").match):
+def IS_LINE_JUNK(line, pat=re.compile(r"\s*(?:#\s*)?$").match):
     r"""
     Return 1 for ignorable line: iff `line` is blank or contains a single '#'.