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Re: update
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:00:39 -0400
On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 18:50:05 -0400, Jim Popovitch said:
If someone is already invoking #!/bin/bash from a cgi, then they are already doing it wrong (bash has massive bloat/overhead for a CGI script).
You sure you don't have *any* cgi's that do something like system("mail -s 'cgi program xxyz hit fatal error' webadmin@localhost"); because all it takes is finding a way to force the fatal error while you send a crafted User-Agent: header.... As Jim Popovitch said, bash usage is incredibly pervasive....
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