[3.14] gh-153406: Raise ValueError, not OverflowError, for out-of-range dates in...

email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime documented that it raises ValueError for an invalid date, but it leaked OverflowError when the parsed year or timezone offset was too large for the datetime and timedelta constructors, and that OverflowError also escaped the modern header parsing path since DateHeader.parse only caught ValueError. Wrap the datetime and timezone construction so an OverflowError is re-raised as a ValueError with the original chained as the cause, which restores the documented contract and lets the existing header handler record an InvalidDateDefect instead of raising.
(cherry picked from commit 37a26b9b94b147b5d683bfce0ef5a4c2fbc21085)

Co-authored-by: tonghuaroot (童话) <tonghuaroot@gmail.com>

diff --git a/Lib/email/utils.py b/Lib/email/utils.py
index 3de1f0d24a15b0aa032c6b4a907dcf6ffd371ee9..5838a80856879537c07789a1898121deb2390c42 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/email/utils.py
+++ b/Lib/email/utils.py
@@ -317,10 +317,13 @@ def parsedate_to_datetime(data):
     if parsed_date_tz is None:
         raise ValueError('Invalid date value or format "%s"' % str(data))
     *dtuple, tz = parsed_date_tz
-    if tz is None:
-        return datetime.datetime(*dtuple[:6])
-    return datetime.datetime(*dtuple[:6],
-            tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=tz)))
+    try:
+        if tz is None:
+            return datetime.datetime(*dtuple[:6])
+        return datetime.datetime(*dtuple[:6],
+                tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=tz)))
+    except OverflowError as exc:
+        raise ValueError('Invalid date value or format "%s"' % str(data)) from exc
 
 
 def parseaddr(addr, *, strict=True):

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_headerregistry.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_headerregistry.py
index d0643be2ce0de8016404469c7753561bd4bff47e..ddf0fc64b0c676ab3ecdca892fd22c9f011e2db4 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_headerregistry.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_headerregistry.py
@@ -220,6 +220,14 @@ class TestDateHeader(TestHeaderBase):
         self.assertEqual(len(h.defects), 1)
         self.assertIsInstance(h.defects[0], errors.InvalidDateDefect)
 
+    def test_out_of_range_date_value(self):
+        s = 'Mon, 20 Nov 9999999999 12:00:00 +0000'
+        h = self.make_header('date', s)
+        self.assertEqual(h, s)
+        self.assertIsNone(h.datetime)
+        self.assertEqual(len(h.defects), 1)
+        self.assertIsInstance(h.defects[0], errors.InvalidDateDefect)
+
     def test_datetime_read_only(self):
         h = self.make_header('date', self.datestring)
         with self.assertRaises(AttributeError):

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_email/test_utils.py b/Lib/test/test_email/test_utils.py
index c9d09098b502f9d2fab3dbda2195730c0029762e..86d1bfff891a7e67b0c413ff6c75556c9045a6bd 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_email/test_utils.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_email/test_utils.py
@@ -77,6 +77,15 @@ class DateTimeTests(unittest.TestCase):
             with self.subTest(dtstr=dtstr):
                 self.assertRaises(ValueError, utils.parsedate_to_datetime, dtstr)
 
+    def test_parsedate_to_datetime_out_of_range_raises_valueerror(self):
+        out_of_range_dates = [
+            'Mon, 20 Nov 9999999999 12:00:00 +0000',
+            'Mon, 20 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +24000000000000',
+        ]
+        for dtstr in out_of_range_dates:
+            with self.subTest(dtstr=dtstr):
+                self.assertRaises(ValueError, utils.parsedate_to_datetime, dtstr)
+
 class LocaltimeTests(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_localtime_is_tz_aware_daylight_true(self):

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-07-09-00-00-00.gh-issue-153406.vyMmB6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-07-09-00-00-00.gh-issue-153406.vyMmB6.rst
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c095757
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-07-09-00-00-00.gh-issue-153406.vyMmB6.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+:func:`email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime` now raises :exc:`ValueError`
+instead of :exc:`OverflowError` when the parsed year or timezone offset is
+out of range, matching its documented behavior.