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# HG changeset patch
# User Kevin McCarthy <kevin@8t8.us>
# Date 1417472364 28800
# Node ID 0aebf1df43598b442ac75ae4fe17875351854db0
# Parent  5a86319adad0d17e4acaf8a580bfc9eb247547d0
Revert write_one_header() to skip space and tab.  (closes #3716)

This patch fixes CVE-2014-9116 in the stable branch.  It reverts
write_one_header() to the pre [f251d523ca5a] code for skipping
whitespace.

Thanks to Antonio Radici and Tomas Hoger for their analysis and patches
to mutt, which this patch is based off of.

diff -r 5a86319adad0 -r 0aebf1df4359 sendlib.c
--- a/sendlib.c	Mon Jan 05 18:28:59 2015 -0800
+++ b/sendlib.c	Mon Dec 01 14:19:24 2014 -0800
@@ -1814,7 +1814,14 @@
     {
       tagbuf = mutt_substrdup (start, t);
       /* skip over the colon separating the header field name and value */
-      t = skip_email_wsp(t + 1);
+      ++t;
+
+      /* skip over any leading whitespace (WSP, as defined in RFC5322)
+       * NOTE: skip_email_wsp() does the wrong thing here.
+       *       See tickets 3609 and 3716. */
+      while (*t == ' ' || *t == '\t')
+        t++;
+
       valbuf = mutt_substrdup (t, end);
     }
     dprint(4,(debugfile,"mwoh: buf[%s%s] too long, "