#1874: detect invalid multipart CTE and report it as a defect.
diff --git a/Lib/email/errors.py b/Lib/email/errors.py
index c2ea7d4..c04deb4 100644
--- a/Lib/email/errors.py
+++ b/Lib/email/errors.py
@@ -55,3 +55,6 @@
class MultipartInvariantViolationDefect(MessageDefect):
"""A message claimed to be a multipart but no subparts were found."""
+
+class InvalidMultipartContentTransferEncodingDefect(MessageDefect):
+ """An invalid content transfer encoding was set on the multipart itself."""
diff --git a/Lib/email/feedparser.py b/Lib/email/feedparser.py
index 60de49e..e754d89 100644
--- a/Lib/email/feedparser.py
+++ b/Lib/email/feedparser.py
@@ -300,6 +300,11 @@
lines.append(line)
self._cur.set_payload(EMPTYSTRING.join(lines))
return
+ # Make sure a valid content type was specified per RFC 2045:6.4.
+ if (self._cur.get('content-transfer-encoding', '8bit').lower()
+ not in ('7bit', '8bit', 'binary')):
+ defect = errors.InvalidMultipartContentTransferEncodingDefect()
+ self.policy.handle_defect(self._cur, defect)
# Create a line match predicate which matches the inter-part
# boundary as well as the end-of-multipart boundary. Don't push
# this onto the input stream until we've scanned past the