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25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32

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From: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.2;
 mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 11:32:31 -0500

Hello,

I was trying to send an encrypted email while in notmuch, to a user
whose openpgp key had expired. When I tried to send the mail, I would
get the following in the mini-buffer:

mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32

I did M-x toggle-debug-on-error and tried again, and I see this:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (scan-error "Unbalanced parentheses" 7 32)
  scan-sexps(7 1)
  forward-sexp(1)
  mail-header-parse-address("dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>")
  mml-secure-check-user-id([cl-struct-epg-key none
  ([cl-struct-epg-sub-key expired (sign certify) nil 1 4096
  "A5E6BCA629BA4127" (20587 . 32329) (23459 . 54374)
  "B2B397904D39F3B3D4BA511EA5E6BCA629BA4127"] [cl-struct-epg-sub-key
  expired (authentication) nil 1 2048 "D35B7CEAEC88B93E" (21257 . 63618)
  nil "12B793B0865848CE63DEEA37D35B7CEAEC88B93E"] [cl-struct-epg-sub-key
  expired (encrypt) nil 1 4096 "55D07B549A11DF03" (20587 . 32329) nil
  "525B1A94392DE6015619ED4F55D07B549A11DF03"]) ([cl-struct-epg-user-id
  expired "dr ebs <dre <at> foo.net>" nil] [cl-struct-epg-user-id revoked "dr
  ebs <dre <at> bar.org>" nil] [cl-struct-epg-user-id revoked "dr ebs (>O_/)
  <dre <at> bar.org>" nil] [cl-struct-epg-user-id revoked "dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>" nil])] "<dre <at> foo.net>")
  mml-secure-find-usable-keys([cl-struct-epg-context OpenPGP "/usr/bin/gpg2" nil nil nil nil nil nil nil (epg-passphrase-callback-function) nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil "" nil] "<dre <at> foo.net>" encrypt)
  #[(name) "\306	\n#\211G\211\307U\203&

Once I refreshed this user's key, I was able to send the message without
error. The user has some UIDs on their key that have a comment in them
with ascii ducks:

(3)  dre ebs (>O_/) <dre <at> bar.org>
(4)  dre ebs (\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>

They have been revoked now that I refreshed, so I guess it did not
consider these keys because of that, but before it was considering them
and was choking on the ducks, a sexp injection?

Thanks!
micah


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-- 
        micah

Message #8 received at 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33613: 25.2;
 mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:03:05 -0500

micah anderson wrote:

>   mail-header-parse-address("dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>")

It could probably be handled more elegantly, but IIUC

"dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>"

isn't valid in an email header, because the () are special characters
that should be quoted in the display name, per RFC5322.

Ie this works:

(mail-header-parse-address "\"dr ebs (\\_O<)\" <dre <at> foo.net>")


A nice summary at
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24940588/validation-format-of-display-name-in-from-header

Message #11 received at 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33613: 25.2;
 mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:46:56 -0500

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> micah anderson wrote:
>
>>   mail-header-parse-address("dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>")
>
> It could probably be handled more elegantly, but IIUC
>
> "dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>"
>
> isn't valid in an email header, because the () are special characters
> that should be quoted in the display name, per RFC5322.

Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre <at> foo.net> in an OpenPGP userID
is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
following any email address standard.

-- 
        micah

Message #14 received at 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33613: 25.2;
 mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:02:14 -0500

micah anderson wrote:

> Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre <at> foo.net> in an OpenPGP userID
> is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
> following any email address standard.

OK, but there's a de facto standard [1] that it be a normal email
address. GPG for example won't create a uid like the one in this report
without --allow-freeform-uid, which "should only be used in very special
environments".

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11
"By convention, it includes an RFC 2822 mail name-addr".

Message #19 received at 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33613: 25.2;
 mail-header-parse-address: scan-error "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 15:23:49 -0500

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> micah anderson wrote:
>
>> Yeah, the text that comes before the <dre <at> foo.net> in an OpenPGP userID
>> is defined as arbitrary UTF-8 text, so it should not be considered to be
>> following any email address standard.
>
> OK, but there's a de facto standard [1] that it be a normal email
> address. GPG for example won't create a uid like the one in this report
> without --allow-freeform-uid, which "should only be used in very special
> environments".

You are right.

> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880#section-5.11
> "By convention, it includes an RFC 2822 mail name-addr"

yes, except when it doesn't.

That quote continues, here is the full thing:

"By convention, it includes an RFC 2822 [RFC2822] mail name-addr, but
there are no restrictions on its content."

I think we agree on this - these are not normal, they aren't
conventional, but mail-header-parse-address should be able to deal with
these cases.

-- 
        micah

Message #22 received at 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 33613 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33613: 25.2; mail-header-parse-address: scan-error
 "Unbalanced parenthesis" 7 32
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:36:52 +0200

micah anderson <micah <at> riseup.net> writes:

>   mail-header-parse-address("dr ebs (\\_O<) <dre <at> foo.net>")
>   mml-secure-check-user-id([cl-struct-epg-key none

I've now made mml-secure-check-user-id ignore keys that aren't valid
email addresses instead of bugging out in Emacs 27.

-- 
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