email.Utils.parsedate can return bogus date

Bug #558226 reported by tkikuchi
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Bug Description

While the CVE entry of CVE-2005-4153 (see
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16248/info) is not
vulnerable for mailman-2.1.7 and newer, we should fix
the date parsing bug in email package. In the meantime
of the package renewal, this patch may be used to
workaround the bug.

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tkikuchi (tkikuchi-users) wrote :

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Here is my revised patch. It looks like time.strftime() has
stricter value check.

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tkikuchi (tkikuchi-users) wrote :

The file parsedate-wa20060202.patch was added: parsedate workarounds revised

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bwarsaw (bwarsaw) wrote :

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With email 2.5.7 this will no longer be necessary.

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