[kwlug-disc] Vulnerability in bash

Paul Nijjar paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca
Wed Sep 24 23:54:23 EDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:21:57PM -0400, L.D. Paniak wrote:
> The list should be aware of a newly-announced and particularly nasty
> parsing bug with all versions of bash:
> 
> http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-6271
> 
> The combination of "network exploitable" and "authentication not
> required"  make this a "10" on the severity scale.
> 
> Updated packages for current versions of Ubuntu look to have been pushed
> out earlier today:
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash

I am glad I am not the only one who found that bug scary.

- Paul

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