#13579: test_executable security risk
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner:
mvngu
Type: defect | Status:
needs_review
Priority: blocker | Milestone:
sage-5.4
Component: doctest | Resolution:
Keywords: | Work issues:
Report Upstream: Not yet reported upstream; Will do shortly. | Reviewers:
Volker Braun, Jeroen Demeyer
Authors: Jeroen Demeyer, Volker Braun | Merged in:
Dependencies: | Stopgaps:
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Comment (by vbraun):
What is your proposal? IMHO its ok to refuse to run or to print a warning
(as in my patch to `sage-run`). If you want to silently drop `sys.path[0]`
then you are just teaching unsafe habits, and tears will be shed later
when your student uses an unpatched Python...
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