[issue12238] Readline module loading in interactive mode

2011-06-06 Thread Niels Heinen
Niels Heinen added the comment: Hi Eric, David, This means that you cannot type "python" and press in any shared directory without the risk of a malicious readlinemodule.so being imported and executed. I think this is different from a scenario where someone explicitly runs a

[issue12238] Readline module loading in interactive mode

2011-06-02 Thread Niels Heinen
New submission from Niels Heinen : Running the python binary without a script or using the -i flag will start the process in interactive mode. The interactive mode requires an external module to be loaded: readline. Per default behavior, Python also tries to load this module from the current