[issue16248] Security bug in tkinter allows for untrusted, arbitrary code execution.

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

As Zachary and Ramchandra explained, the security issue is obvious: a non-sudoer user A can make a sudoer user B execute arbitrary code, simply by placing a file where IDLE will be run from.

This is the same reason Python has -s and -E options. The least we could do would be to disable readprofile() when sys.flags.ignore_environment is true.

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nosy: +pitrou
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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