[2.7] 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>.
(cherry picked from commit 0e6c8ee2358a2e23117501826c008842acb835ac)

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/poplib.py b/Lib/poplib.py
index b91e5f7..a238510 100644
--- a/Lib/poplib.py
+++ b/Lib/poplib.py
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ class POP3:
         return self._shortcmd('RPOP %s' % user)
 
 
-    timestamp = re.compile(r'\+OK.*(<[^>]+>)')
+    timestamp = re.compile(br'\+OK.[^<]*(<.*>)')
 
     def apop(self, user, secret):
         """Authorisation