Quite. Thankfully the practice of just randomly shelling out to 'random' programs (like the core tools) has been stemmed somewhat, so perhaps we're mostly safe

Quite. Thankfully the practice of just randomly shelling out to 'random' programs (like the core tools) has been stemmed somewhat, so perhaps we're mostly safe from RCE via that vector. Downloaded files might still be a vector, tho. Maybe I'm an optimist even though I sound very pessimistic.