mailinfo: don't decode invalid =XY quoted-printable sequences

Decode =XY in quoted-printable segments only if X and Y are hexadecimal
digits, otherwise just copy them.  That's at least better than
interpreting negative results from hexval() as a character.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mailinfo.c b/mailinfo.c
index b4118a0275..5a597ef89c 100644
--- a/mailinfo.c
+++ b/mailinfo.c
@@ -367,11 +367,16 @@ static struct strbuf *decode_q_segment(const struct strbuf *q_seg, int rfc2047)
 
 	while ((c = *in++) != 0) {
 		if (c == '=') {
-			int d = *in++;
+			int ch, d = *in;
 			if (d == '\n' || !d)
 				break; /* drop trailing newline */
-			strbuf_addch(out, (hexval(d) << 4) | hexval(*in++));
-			continue;
+			ch = hex2chr(in);
+			if (ch >= 0) {
+				strbuf_addch(out, ch);
+				in += 2;
+				continue;
+			}
+			/* garbage -- fall through */
 		}
 		if (rfc2047 && c == '_') /* rfc2047 4.2 (2) */
 			c = 0x20;