From: Matthew Rollings <1211162+stealthcopter@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 18:18:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: [2.7] bpo-38945: UU Encoding: Don't let newline in filename corrupt the output format... 
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[2.7] bpo-38945: UU Encoding: Don't let newline in filename corrupt the output format (GH-17418). (#17452)

(cherry picked from commit a62ad4730c9b575f140f24074656c0257c86a09a)

Co-authored-by: Matthew Rollings <1211162+stealthcopter@users.noreply.github.com>
---

diff --git a/Lib/encodings/uu_codec.py b/Lib/encodings/uu_codec.py
index 5cb0d2b13e07..fcd5aa45a970 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/uu_codec.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/uu_codec.py
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ def uu_encode(input,errors='strict',filename='<data>',mode=0666):
     read = infile.read
     write = outfile.write
 
+    # Remove newline chars from filename
+    filename = filename.replace('\n','\\n')
+    filename = filename.replace('\r','\\r')
+
     # Encode
     write('begin %o %s\n' % (mode & 0777, filename))
     chunk = read(45)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_uu.py b/Lib/test/test_uu.py
index df41cbc12d40..f016bb2c67ea 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_uu.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_uu.py
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ from test import test_support as support
 import cStringIO
 import sys
 import uu
+import io
 
 plaintext = "The smooth-scaled python crept over the sleeping dog\n"
 
@@ -82,6 +83,15 @@ class UUTest(unittest.TestCase):
         decoded = codecs.decode(encodedtext, "uu_codec")
         self.assertEqual(decoded, plaintext)
 
+    def test_newlines_escaped(self):
+        # Test newlines are escaped with uu.encode
+        inp = io.BytesIO(plaintext)
+        out = io.BytesIO()
+        filename = "test.txt\n\roverflow.txt"
+        safefilename = b"test.txt\\n\\roverflow.txt"
+        uu.encode(inp, out, filename)
+        self.assertIn(safefilename, out.getvalue())
+
 class UUStdIOTest(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):
diff --git a/Lib/uu.py b/Lib/uu.py
index f8fa4c475766..8eaea5960dff 100755
--- a/Lib/uu.py
+++ b/Lib/uu.py
@@ -73,6 +73,13 @@ def encode(in_file, out_file, name=None, mode=None):
             name = '-'
         if mode is None:
             mode = 0666
+
+        #
+        # Remove newline chars from name
+        #
+        name = name.replace('\n','\\n')
+        name = name.replace('\r','\\r')
+
         #
         # Write the data
         #
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-12-01-22-44-40.bpo-38945.ztmNXc.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-12-01-22-44-40.bpo-38945.ztmNXc.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1bf6ed567b24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2019-12-01-22-44-40.bpo-38945.ztmNXc.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Newline characters have been escaped when performing uu encoding to prevent them from overflowing into to content section of the encoded file. This prevents malicious or accidental modification of data during the decoding process.
\ No newline at end of file