[issue4489] shutil.rmtree is vulnerable to a symlink attack

[Tarek Ziadé]

Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek at gmail.com> added the comment:

Mart,

I took over the maintenance of shutil, if you are interested in contributing a bullet-proof version of rmtree, please drop a line at python-ideas, and let's see what we can do in a new function maybe.

I'll be happy to review and apply patches if we get a consensus

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assignee:  -> tarek
nosy: +tarek
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3 -Python 2.3, Python 2.4, Python 2.5, Python 3.0

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