From cb9d53c615c0d64ba7643f3adb94a59ebe378e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kushal Das <kushal@freedom.press>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:24:32 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Fixes #3308 strips out any ANSI escape sequence

---
 journalist_gui/journalist_gui/SecureDropUpdater.py | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/journalist_gui/journalist_gui/SecureDropUpdater.py b/journalist_gui/journalist_gui/SecureDropUpdater.py
index 279b869e880..80bcda4dd3a 100644
--- a/journalist_gui/journalist_gui/SecureDropUpdater.py
+++ b/journalist_gui/journalist_gui/SecureDropUpdater.py
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@
 from PyQt5.QtCore import QThread, pyqtSignal
 import subprocess
 import os
+import re
 import pexpect
 
 from journalist_gui import updaterUI, strings, resources_rc  # noqa
 
 
 LOCK_LOCATION = "/home/amnesia/Persistent/securedrop/securedrop_update.lock"  # noqa
+ESCAPE_POD = re.compile(r'\x1B\[[0-?]*[ -/]*[@-~]')
 
 
 class SetupThread(QThread):
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ def run(self):
             self.update_success = False
             self.failure_reason = strings.tailsconfig_failed_generic_reason
         result = {'status': self.update_success,
-                  'output': self.output,
+                  'output': ESCAPE_POD.sub('', self.output),
                   'failure_reason': self.failure_reason}
         self.signal.emit(result)