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
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