[Python-modules-team] Bug#977894: gui is broken, python3-xdo

[Joey Hess]

Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> thanks for the diagnosis, Joey!  this looks like a change between the
> ctypes module between python 3.8 and 3.9.  I'll fix it in python3-xdo,
> and hopefully that will resolve your problem.

Independent of getting this fixed, I think it's concerning that ctypes
falls back to looking for library files in cwd when a shared library is
unavailable. That has potential to be part of a security exploit chain,
although I have not dug deeply enough to know if it's exploitable.

-- 
see shy jo
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