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

[Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 21:39:19 -0400
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case edu> wrote:

> OK, here are the more-or-less final versions of the patches for
> bash-2.05b through bash-4.3.  I made two changes from earlier today:
> the function export suffix is now `%%', which is not part of a the
> set of valid variable name characters but avoids any potential
> problems with including shell metacharacters in the name; and this
> version refuses to import shell functions whose name contains a
> slash, for reasons I discussed earlier.

From what I can see your official patches still don't contain the
out-of-bound memory fixes.

While not exposing the parser to random variables should shield that
somewhat and reduce impact, they still should be fixed and the redhat
patch looks pretty straightforward.

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