$NetBSD: patch-Doc_library_mailcap.rst,v 1.1 2022/08/11 01:32:50 gutteridge Exp $ Fix CVE-2015-20107: Make mailcap refuse to match unsafe filenames/types/params Via Fedora: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python2.7/raw/a9b12e85bd4d3280e07bc3bfa72a9f2b674cb4ff/f/00382-cve-2015-20107.patch --- Doc/library/mailcap.rst.orig 2020-04-19 21:13:39.000000000 +0000 +++ Doc/library/mailcap.rst @@ -54,6 +54,18 @@ standard. However, mailcap files are su use) to determine whether or not the mailcap line applies. :func:`findmatch` will automatically check such conditions and skip the entry if the check fails. + .. versionchanged:: 3.11 + + To prevent security issues with shell metacharacters (symbols that have + special effects in a shell command line), ``findmatch`` will refuse + to inject ASCII characters other than alphanumerics and ``@+=:,./-_`` + into the returned command line. + + If a disallowed character appears in *filename*, ``findmatch`` will always + return ``(None, None)`` as if no entry was found. + If such a character appears elsewhere (a value in *plist* or in *MIMEtype*), + ``findmatch`` will ignore all mailcap entries which use that value. + A :mod:`warning ` will be raised in either case. .. function:: getcaps()