On Saturday, 7 September 2013 10:15:47 CEST, Pali Rohár wrote:
Really why is problem first trying to load plugins from executable directory?

Security. The idea is that once you include "." (or any variant thereof, or even an empty strings which is the same for the linker) in the search path for libraries, you now give the attacker a trivial way to execute code.

Cheers,
Jan

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