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Re: bashbug chooses wrong $EDITOR executable
From: |
Chet Ramey |
Subject: |
Re: bashbug chooses wrong $EDITOR executable |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:21:26 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) |
Villeneuve wrote:
> Fix:
> Do not prepend system paths in front of PATH in the bashbug script.
> Instead, these default paths could be appended to PATH if necessary.
To do otherwise is a potential security hole.
Chet
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