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Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash


From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 21:23:17 -0400

On 9/24/14, 5:32 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 11:27:09PM +0200, Hanno B??ck wrote:
Tavis Ormandy just tweetet this:
https://twitter.com/taviso/status/514887394294652929

The bash patch seems incomplete to me, function parsing is still
brittle. e.g. $ env X='() { (a)=>\' sh -c "echo date"; cat echo

Thanks for bringing this to oss-security.  I've added CC to Chet and
Tavis on this "reply".

I have a fix for this.

Chet
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