diff -r 1412be96faf0 Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py	Sat Nov 14 15:42:17 2015 +0200
+++ b/Lib/distutils/command/bdist_rpm.py	Sat Nov 14 23:01:21 2015 +0100
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 Implements the Distutils 'bdist_rpm' command (create RPM source and binary
 distributions)."""
 
+import shlex
 import subprocess, sys, os
 from distutils.core import Command
 from distutils.debug import DEBUG
@@ -339,7 +340,7 @@
         src_rpm = nvr_string + ".src.rpm"
         non_src_rpm = "%{arch}/" + nvr_string + ".%{arch}.rpm"
         q_cmd = r"rpm -q --qf '%s %s\n' --specfile '%s'" % (
-            src_rpm, non_src_rpm, spec_path)
+            src_rpm, non_src_rpm, shlex.quote(spec_path))
 
         out = os.popen(q_cmd)
         try: