of those two groups) who don't understand that these are information leaks
once they are enabled, and the subtlety of the way they are disabled ("Apache
messed up the first line; let me fix that") contributes to that.
+ fuankg notes: I've just added a big warning to all CGI scripts which should now
+ make alsolutely clear that these CGIs are for testing purpose only - so those
+ who enable those scripts with inserting the right shebang should be 100% aware
+ of any risks (this should cover your last point).
A list of further possible backports can be found at:
http://people.apache.org/~rjung/patches/possible-backports-httpd-trunk-2_4.txt