[PATCH v3 2/4] util/repair: identify and repair "Mixed Up" mangled messages

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Fri May 31 00:48:40 PDT 2019


This patch implements a functional identification and repair process
for "Mixed Up" MIME messages as described in
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling-00#section-4.1

The detection test is not entirely complete, in that it does not
verify the contents of the latter two message subparts, but this is
probably safe to skip, because those two parts are unlikely to be
readable anyway, and the only part we are effectively omitting (the
first subpart) is guaranteed to be empty anyway, so its removal can be
reversed if you want to do so.  I've left FIXMEs in the code so that
anyone excited about adding these additional checks can see where to
put them in.

I'll use this functionality in the next two patches.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
---
 util/repair.c | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 util/repair.h |  9 ++++++
 2 files changed, 89 insertions(+)

diff --git a/util/repair.c b/util/repair.c
index f91c1244..56d6c5b5 100644
--- a/util/repair.c
+++ b/util/repair.c
@@ -18,4 +18,84 @@
  * Authors: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net>
  */
 
+#include <stdbool.h>
 #include "repair.h"
+
+/* see
+ * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling-00#section-4.1.1 */
+static bool
+_notmuch_is_mixed_up_mangled (GMimeObject *part)
+{
+    GMimeMultipart *mpart = NULL;
+    GMimeObject *first, *second, *third = NULL;
+    char *prelude_string = NULL;
+    bool prelude_is_empty;
+
+    if (! g_mime_content_type_is_type (g_mime_object_get_content_type (part),
+				       "multipart", "mixed"))
+	return false;
+    if (! GMIME_IS_MULTIPART (part))
+	return false;
+    mpart = GMIME_MULTIPART (part);
+    if (mpart == NULL)
+	return false;
+    if (g_mime_multipart_get_count (mpart) != 3)
+	return false;
+    first = g_mime_multipart_get_part (mpart, 0);
+    if (! g_mime_content_type_is_type (g_mime_object_get_content_type (first),
+				       "text", "plain"))
+	return false;
+    if (! GMIME_IS_TEXT_PART (first))
+	return false;
+    second = g_mime_multipart_get_part (mpart, 1);
+    if (! g_mime_content_type_is_type (g_mime_object_get_content_type (second),
+				       "application", "pgp-encrypted"))
+	return false;
+    third = g_mime_multipart_get_part (mpart, 2);
+    if (! g_mime_content_type_is_type (g_mime_object_get_content_type (third),
+				       "application", "octet-stream"))
+	return false;
+
+    /* Is first subpart length 0? */
+    prelude_string = g_mime_text_part_get_text (GMIME_TEXT_PART (first));
+    prelude_is_empty = ! (strcmp ("", prelude_string));
+    g_free (prelude_string);
+    if (! prelude_is_empty)
+	return false;
+
+    /* FIXME: after decoding and stripping whitespace, is second
+     * subpart just "Version: 1" ? */
+
+    /* FIXME: can we determine that third subpart is *only* PGP
+     * encrypted data?  I tried g_mime_part_get_openpgp_data () but
+     * found https://github.com/jstedfast/gmime/issues/60 */
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+
+/* see
+ * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling-00#section-4.1.2 */
+GMimeObject*
+_notmuch_repair_mixed_up_mangled (GMimeObject *part)
+{
+    GMimeMultipart *mpart = NULL, *mpart_ret = NULL;
+    GMimeObject *ret = NULL;
+
+    if (! _notmuch_is_mixed_up_mangled (part))
+	return NULL;
+    mpart = GMIME_MULTIPART (part);
+    ret = GMIME_OBJECT (g_mime_multipart_encrypted_new ());
+    if (ret == NULL)
+	return NULL;
+    mpart_ret = GMIME_MULTIPART (ret);
+    if (mpart_ret == NULL) {
+	g_object_unref (ret);
+	return NULL;
+    }
+    g_mime_object_set_content_type_parameter (ret, "protocol", "application/pgp-encrypted");
+
+    g_mime_multipart_insert (mpart_ret, 0, g_mime_multipart_get_part (mpart, 1));
+    g_mime_multipart_insert (mpart_ret, 1, g_mime_multipart_get_part (mpart, 2));
+    return ret;
+}
diff --git a/util/repair.h b/util/repair.h
index 70e2b7bc..a7fc885a 100644
--- a/util/repair.h
+++ b/util/repair.h
@@ -11,6 +11,15 @@ extern "C" {
  * techniques that are designed to improve the user experience of
  * notmuch */
 
+/* Detecting and repairing "Mixed-Up MIME mangling". see
+ * https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-dkg-openpgp-pgpmime-message-mangling-00#section-4.1
+ * If this returns NULL, the message was probably not "Mixed up".  If
+ * it returns non-NULL, then there is a newly-allocated MIME part that
+ * represents the repaired version.  The caller is responsible for
+ * ensuring that any returned object is freed with g_object_unref. */
+GMimeObject*
+_notmuch_repair_mixed_up_mangled (GMimeObject *part);
+
 #ifdef __cplusplus
 }
 #endif
-- 
2.20.1



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