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

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Can anyone move this to Stage: patch review (for the fix approach
> proposed in msg90336)?  Or does anyone have better idea on how to move
> this closer to final fix or wontfix / reject?  Thank you!

I stand by my opinion that adding another hack in the initialization
path will not do us a lot of good, while a separate API would solve the
problem neatly. Perhaps Dave Malcolm can chime in?

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