[issue5753] CVE-2008-5983 python: untrusted python modules search path

["Martin v. Löwis" <report@bugs.python.org> at psf.upfronthosting.co.za]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> added the comment:

> What's the question of 'security nature' of the issue, Glyph in
> message #msg86927 already uncovered potential implications --

The question is whether these are theoretical or real problems.
I ran gedit (as proposed by Glyph) under strace(1), and it didn't
try to open any files in the current directory.

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