reassign 504359 python-csoundac
tags 504359 pending

El 02/11/08 22:50 James Vega escribió:
> Package: csound
> Version: 1:5.08.2~dfsg-1
> Severity: grave
> Tags: security patch
> Justification: user security hole
> Usertags: pythonpath
>
> csound's python interface calls PySys_SetArgv with an argv[0] that
> doesn't resolve to a filename.  This causes Python to prepend sys.path
> with an empty string which, due to the use of relative imports, allows
> the possibility to run arbitrary code on the user's system if a file in
> their working directory matches the name of a python module csound tries
> to import.
>
> This should be fixed by Python 2.6 as it uses absolute imports by
> default, but I have not been able to test it and this still needs a fix
> for packages built against/used with the currently supported versions of
> Python.

Thanks for the patch. I have already added it to my working tree, will upload 
a new version soonish.

Saludos,
Felipe Sateler

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