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Message from discussion Sage doctesting on shared systems insecure (#13579)

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Subject: Re: [sage-devel] Sage doctesting on shared systems insecure (#13579)
From: John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com>
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Would it not be a good idea to disable testing this file (or the bad
part in it) until this has been fixed?  In all future testing &
development releases?

John

On 10 October 2012 12:35, Nicolas M. Thiery <Nicolas.Thi...@u-psud.fr> wrot=
e:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:45:50AM +0200, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>> Volker Braun discovered a serious security vulnerability in Sage when
>> doctesting sage/tests/cmdline.py
>
> Yikes! Good job Volker detecting this!
>
>> * if you're a Sage developer: unless nobody else can log in to your
>> system, do not run anything like "make ptestlong" or "./sage -t
>> devel/sage/sage".  Consider deleting sage/tests/cmdline.py from your
>> Sage installation.
>
> Note for the users of the Sage-Combinat queue: I have just inserted a
> temporary patch at the bottom of the queue that adds "nodoctest" to
> this file, effectively disabling its testing. So you need not worry
> about this issue (well, except that any test failure in cmdline.py
> that our patches may cause will get unnoticed until the issue is
> fixed).
>
> Cheers,
>                                 Nicolas
> --
> Nicolas M. Thi=E9ry "Isil" <nthi...@users.sf.net>
> http://Nicolas.Thiery.name/
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