Could this bug be eventually fixed?

One can compromise other users' account for those who run things
from /tmp subdirectories, e.g.

User1:
  echo "echo Hacked >> ~/.profile" > /tmp/install-sh
  chmod 755 /tmp/install-sh
  cp /tmp/install-sh /tmp/config.guess

User2:
* Have some libtool-based source in /tmp/some_dir
* From this directory, run:
  autoreconf -i
  ./configure

The consequence is that User2 has "Hacked" written at the end of
his .profile file. Of course, one can do much worse...

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