806450 – net-analyzer/netcat: use flag for execute option?

Bug 806450 - net-analyzer/netcat: use flag for execute option?

Summary: net-analyzer/netcat: use flag for execute option?

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Sam James

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Reported:	2021-08-05 02:25 UTC by Luke McHale
Modified:	2021-08-05 03:24 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Luke McHale 2021-08-05 02:25:02 UTC

Low priority.
-DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE is just a tad scary on it's face, but really only refers to nc being built with the -e flag enabled.  Might be useful as a use flag to enable building nc with shell/execute capability?

make -j2 'LD=powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed' 'DFLAGS= -DTELNET -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE' 'XFLAGS=-pipe -O2 -mcpu=8548' STATIC= XLIBS= nc 
powerpc-e500v2-linux-gnuspe-gcc -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -DTELNET -DGAPING_SECURITY_HOLE -pipe -O2 -mcpu=8548  -o nc netcat.c