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Bug #73110 Mails with unknown MIME version are treated as plain/text
Submitted: 2016-09-19 06:20 UTC Modified: 2021-09-08 14:57 UTC
From: jochem dot blok at fasterforward dot nl Assigned: cmb (profile)
Status: Closed Package: mailparse (PECL)
PHP Version: 5.6.26 OS: Ubuntu 14.04
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2016-09-19 06:20 UTC] jochem dot blok at fasterforward dot nl 
Description:
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We are trying to parse an e-mail with mailparse extension. The header Mime-Version is as follows: "Mime-Version: 1.0;", note the semicolon at the end. Due to this semicolon mailparse treats the mail as text/plain.

Test script:
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$tekst = 'Mime-Version: 1.0;
Content-Type: multipart/Alternative; boundary="=====1473780076CSSSMTP_CLIENT=="

--=====1473780076CSSSMTP_CLIENT==
Content-Type: text/plain

Hello please pay attached invoice
--=====1473780076CSSSMTP_CLIENT==
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Hello please pay attached invoice

--=====1473780076CSSSMTP_CLIENT==--';
$stream = fopen('php://memory', 'r+');
fwrite($stream, $tekst);
fseek($stream, 0);
$resource = mailparse_msg_create();
mailparse_msg_parse($resource, fread($stream, 10000));
$data = mailparse_msg_get_part_data(mailparse_msg_get_part($resource, 1));
print_r($data['content-type']);

Expected result:
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multipart/alternative

Actual result:
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text/plain

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 [2018-02-06 11:32 UTC] jochem dot blok at fasterforward dot nl 
Any update regarding the open bugs in Mailparse? I found another but this very old bug is still not solved?
 [2021-09-02 11:52 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Status: Open +Status: Verified
 [2021-09-02 11:52 UTC] cmb@php.net 
I can confirm the broken behavior.  Either the parser should be
liberal and ignore that semicolon, or the parsing should fail.
However, if I remove the semicolon manually, I get several memory
leaks.  This should be addressed first; it might be related to bug
#74233.
 [2021-09-07 15:05 UTC] cmb@php.net 
> However, if I remove the semicolon manually, I get several
> memory leaks.

That is caused by the fix for bug #73562, and can't be avoided;
otherwise there is a NULL pointer dereference.  I have documented
that mailparse_msg_free() should be called explicitly[1].  The
clean solution would require to convert the resource to an opaque
object.

[1] <https://github.com/php/doc-en/commit/f7ee3294054f619f354d22aca3c5cb7c92b69962>
 [2021-09-07 16:49 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: cmb
 [2021-09-07 16:49 UTC] cmb@php.net 
Back to the actual topic of this ticket.  The problem is that for
any unknown MIME version (i.e. everything except "1.0"), the
content-type and boundary are discarded[1].  However, that is a
doubtful decision, given that a *missing* MIME version is treated
like 1.0[2].  Especially considering that it is somewhat unlikely
that there ever will be another MIME version than 1.0[3], in my
opinion any given MIME version should be treated as 1.0.

[1] <https://github.com/php/pecl-mail-mailparse/blob/7fe7a0316f7bc0c9111d00a2c916d87b3db47d0f/php_mailparse_mime.c#L664-L666>
[2] <https://github.com/php/pecl-mail-mailparse/blob/7fe7a0316f7bc0c9111d00a2c916d87b3db47d0f/php_mailparse_mime.c#L658-L659>
[3] <https://www.networkworld.com/article/2199390/the-mime-guys--how-two-internet-gurus-changed-e-mail-forever.html>
 [2021-09-08 14:56 UTC] cmb@php.net 
The following pull request has been associated:

Patch Name: Fix #73110: Mails with unknown MIME version are treated as plain/text
On GitHub:  https://github.com/php/pecl-mail-mailparse/pull/18
Patch:      https://github.com/php/pecl-mail-mailparse/pull/18.patch
 [2021-09-08 14:57 UTC] cmb@php.net
-Summary: Mails with header mime-version which end with a semicolon gets treated as plain +Summary: Mails with unknown MIME version are treated as plain/text
 [2021-09-20 08:10 UTC] git@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of cmb69
Revision: https://github.com/php/pecl-mail-mailparse/commit/dfb1fd9b8316e2c5f16c1d8b9d2a7da7faaa916d
Log: Fix #73110: Mails with unknown MIME version are treated as plain/text
 [2021-09-20 08:10 UTC] git@php.net
-Status: Verified +Status: Closed
 
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