[gmx-developers] cmake build of gromacs 4.5.5 problem

Mark Abraham Mark.Abraham at anu.edu.au
Thu Jun 2 03:40:17 CEST 2011


On 2/06/2011 2:41 AM, Ake Sandgren wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 18:36 +0200, Szilárd Páll wrote:
>>> Those "::::" at the end are slightly bad.
>> What does "bad" mean? Can you elaborate?
> The mean it will use current working dir to look for libs which may or
> may not be a problem. At the very least it would add more unnecessary
> searches.

Technically, I think that's a security flaw. It allows the execution of 
arbitrary user code. A few years ago we had a security type ask us to 
fix something in GMXRC along these lines.

Mark



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