Hi Folks,

This bug was reported upstream and partly fixed in Dec 2008:

  http://www.gccxml.org/Bug/view.php?id=8083

There were *two* scripts with the problem.  One was MIPSpro/find_flags,
the other was "gccxml_find_flags" which was the one fixed (and later
replaced by a C++ implementation anyway).  At the time I missed that
the MIPSpro one evaluates content of the file from /tmp in a shell
as command-line arguments, permitting the back-tick evaluation attack.

No one ever re-opened the bug to point that out or forwarded this
Debian report upstream until now.  I re-opened the upstream report
with a link to this report, committed a fix, and closed it again
with a reference to the commit.

-Brad



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