File CVE-2018-1061-DOS-via-regexp-difflib.patch of Package python-base.10872

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File CVE-2018-1061-DOS-via-regexp-difflib.patch of Package python-base.10872

From e052d40cea15f582b50947f7d906b39744dc62a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2018 22:18:17 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [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)
---
 Lib/difflib.py                                     |  2 +-
 Lib/poplib.py                                      |  2 +-
 Lib/test/test_difflib.py                           | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 Lib/test/test_poplib.py                            | 10 ++++++++++
 Misc/ACKS                                          |  2 ++
 .../2018-03-02-10-24-52.bpo-32981.O_qDyj.rst       |  4 ++++
 6 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-03-02-10-24-52.bpo-32981.O_qDyj.rst

--- a/Lib/difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/difflib.py
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@ 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 '#'.
 
--- 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
--- a/Lib/test/test_difflib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_difflib.py
@@ -269,13 +269,33 @@ class TestOutputFormat(unittest.TestCase
         self.assertEqual(fmt(3,6), '4,6')
         self.assertEqual(fmt(0,0), '0')
 
+class TestJunkAPIs(unittest.TestCase):
+    def test_is_line_junk_true(self):
+        for line in ['#', '  ', ' #', '# ', ' # ', '']:
+            self.assertTrue(difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK(line), repr(line))
+
+    def test_is_line_junk_false(self):
+        for line in ['##', ' ##', '## ', 'abc ', 'abc #', 'Mr. Moose is up!']:
+            self.assertFalse(difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK(line), repr(line))
+
+    def test_is_line_junk_REDOS(self):
+        evil_input = ('\t' * 1000000) + '##'
+        self.assertFalse(difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK(evil_input))
+
+    def test_is_character_junk_true(self):
+        for char in [' ', '\t']:
+            self.assertTrue(difflib.IS_CHARACTER_JUNK(char), repr(char))
+
+    def test_is_character_junk_false(self):
+        for char in ['a', '#', '\n', '\f', '\r', '\v']:
+            self.assertFalse(difflib.IS_CHARACTER_JUNK(char), repr(char))
 
 def test_main():
     difflib.HtmlDiff._default_prefix = 0
     Doctests = doctest.DocTestSuite(difflib)
     run_unittest(
         TestWithAscii, TestAutojunk, TestSFpatches, TestSFbugs,
-        TestOutputFormat, Doctests)
+        TestOutputFormat, TestJunkAPIs)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     test_main()
--- a/Lib/test/test_poplib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_poplib.py
@@ -211,6 +211,16 @@ class TestPOP3Class(TestCase):
     def test_rpop(self):
         self.assertOK(self.client.rpop('foo'))
 
+    def test_apop_REDOS(self):
+        # Replace welcome with very long evil welcome.
+        # NB The upper bound on welcome length is currently 2048.
+        # At this length, evil input makes each apop call take
+        # on the order of milliseconds instead of microseconds.
+        evil_welcome = b'+OK' + (b'<' * 1000000)
+        with test_support.swap_attr(self.client, 'welcome', evil_welcome):
+            # The evil welcome is invalid, so apop should throw.
+            self.assertRaises(poplib.error_proto, self.client.apop, 'a', 'kb')
+
     def test_top(self):
         expected =  ('+OK 116 bytes',
                      ['From: postmaster@python.org', 'Content-Type: text/plain',
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -314,6 +314,8 @@ Kushal Das
 Jonathan Dasteel
 Pierre-Yves David
 A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
+Jamie (James C.) Davis
+Ratnadeep Debnath
 Merlijn van Deen
 John DeGood
 Ned Deily
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2018-03-02-10-24-52.bpo-32981.O_qDyj.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+Regexes in difflib and poplib were vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking.
+These regexes formed potential DOS vectors (REDOS). They have been
+refactored. This resolves CVE-2018-1060 and CVE-2018-1061.
+Patch by Jamie Davis.

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