[Python-Dev] Safely importing zip files with C extensions (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Thu Mar 28 18:12:05 CET 2013


Am 28.03.2013 17:09, schrieb Brett Cannon:

Which must be done carefully to prevent a security issue. It shouldn't be unzipped anywhere but into a directory only writable by the process.

Cleanup is going to be tricky or even impossible. Windows locks loaded DLLs and therefore prevents their removal. It's possible to unload DLLs but I don't know the implications.



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