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On 21.11.2013 13:56, Ian Clark wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I believe we've found an edge case which isn't correctly caught by the
> *match_request() *method in attachment.py:462
> <http://trac.edgewall.org/browser/trunk/trac/attachment.py#L462>.
> 
> If a filename contains a new line character (e.g. in our case a line
> feed), then it will never be picked up by the match_request method as
> the final match group (.*) doesn't account for new lines.
> 
> One suggested patch would be to add the *re.S* flag to the match, but I
> wanted to check if anyone knew of any issues (e.g. security) which might
> arise from this, particularly if any other places in Trac Core assume
> that a filename doesn't contain a new line character.

My personal feeling is to discourage such an insane filename (report it
in a warning?) in the first place. Neither have I encountered such a
wired filename before nor can I see a valid use case and consequently
the need to support it. Is this unrealistic thinking?

Steffen Hoffmann
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