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Re: update


From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop () gmail com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:27:03 -0400

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Brandon Whaley <redkrieg () gmail com> wrote:
The scope of the issue isn't limited to SSH, that's just a popular
example people are using.  Any program calling bash could potentially
be vulnerable.

Agreed.  My point was that bash is not all that popular on
debian/ubuntu for accounts that would be running public facing
services that would be processing user defined input (www-data,
cgi-bin, list, irc, lp, mail, etc).  Sure some non-privileged user
could host their own cgi script on >:1024, but that's not really a
critical "stop the presses!!" upgrade issue, imho.

-Jim P.


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