This fixes a couple of security bugs. A user of gnulib-tool could cause damage to the fellow developers of his project by storing in gnulib-cache.m4 or gnulib-comp.m4 text like:
gl_VC_FILES(`rm -rf /tmp/*`) AC_DEFUN([gl_FILE_LIST], [ foo bar `rm -rf /tmp/*` ]) 2009-01-01 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> Fix a security bug. * gnulib-tool (func_import, import, update): Don't allow the characters '"', '$', '`', '\' in macro arguments that become part of commands that are evaluated. --- gnulib-tool.orig 2009-01-01 21:55:17.000000000 +0100 +++ gnulib-tool 2009-01-01 21:48:32.000000000 +0100 @@ -2314,7 +2314,7 @@ s,^dnl .*$,, s, dnl .*$,, /gl_LOCAL_DIR(/ { - s,^.*gl_LOCAL_DIR([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_local_gnulib_dir="\1",p + s,^.*gl_LOCAL_DIR([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_local_gnulib_dir="\1",p } /gl_MODULES(/ { ta @@ -2324,55 +2324,55 @@ N ba :b - s,^.*gl_MODULES([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_specified_modules="\1",p + s,^.*gl_MODULES([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_specified_modules="\1",p } /gl_WITH_OBSOLETE/ { s,^.*$,cached_incobsolete=true,p } /gl_AVOID(/ { - s,^.*gl_AVOID([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_avoidlist="\1",p + s,^.*gl_AVOID([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_avoidlist="\1",p } /gl_SOURCE_BASE(/ { - s,^.*gl_SOURCE_BASE([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_sourcebase="\1",p + s,^.*gl_SOURCE_BASE([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_sourcebase="\1",p } /gl_M4_BASE(/ { - s,^.*gl_M4_BASE([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_m4base="\1",p + s,^.*gl_M4_BASE([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_m4base="\1",p } /gl_PO_BASE(/ { - s,^.*gl_PO_BASE([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_pobase="\1",p + s,^.*gl_PO_BASE([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_pobase="\1",p } /gl_DOC_BASE(/ { - s,^.*gl_DOC_BASE([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_docbase="\1",p + s,^.*gl_DOC_BASE([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_docbase="\1",p } /gl_TESTS_BASE(/ { - s,^.*gl_TESTS_BASE([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_testsbase="\1",p + s,^.*gl_TESTS_BASE([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_testsbase="\1",p } /gl_WITH_TESTS/ { s,^.*$,cached_inctests=true,p } /gl_LIB(/ { - s,^.*gl_LIB([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_libname="\1",p + s,^.*gl_LIB([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_libname="\1",p } /gl_LGPL(/ { - s,^.*gl_LGPL([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_lgpl="\1",p + s,^.*gl_LGPL([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_lgpl="\1",p } /gl_LGPL/ { s,^.*$,cached_lgpl=yes,p } /gl_MAKEFILE_NAME(/ { - s,^.*gl_MAKEFILE_NAME([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_makefile_name="\1",p + s,^.*gl_MAKEFILE_NAME([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_makefile_name="\1",p } /gl_LIBTOOL/ { s,^.*$,cached_libtool=true,p } /gl_MACRO_PREFIX(/ { - s,^.*gl_MACRO_PREFIX([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_macro_prefix="\1",p + s,^.*gl_MACRO_PREFIX([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_macro_prefix="\1",p } /gl_PO_DOMAIN(/ { - s,^.*gl_PO_DOMAIN([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_po_domain="\1",p + s,^.*gl_PO_DOMAIN([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_po_domain="\1",p } /gl_VC_FILES(/ { - s,^.*gl_VC_FILES([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,cached_vc_files="\1",p + s,^.*gl_VC_FILES([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,cached_vc_files="\1",p }' eval `sed -n -e "$my_sed_traces" < "$destdir"/$m4base/gnulib-cache.m4` if test -f "$destdir"/$m4base/gnulib-comp.m4; then @@ -2387,6 +2387,7 @@ :a s,^\]).*$,", tb + s,["$`\\],,g p n ba @@ -4247,7 +4248,7 @@ s,^dnl .*$,, s, dnl .*$,, /AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR/ { - s,^.*AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([[ ]*\([^])]*\).*$,guessed_auxdir="\1",p + s,^.*AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([[ ]*\([^]"$`\\)]*\).*$,guessed_auxdir="\1",p } /A[CM]_PROG_LIBTOOL/ { s,^.*$,guessed_libtool=true,p