Re: Shellshock timeline (was: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash)

[Steve Jones <trevd1234 () gmail com>]

cd.textfiles.com and archive.org both have a collection of
shareware cd images of a stripes from around that era.
They're probably worth a look.

The GNU bulletins may serve as another useful
historical artifact.

http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/

Bulletin 7 has the bash beta announce and each
issue has a list of ftp download sites. I expect most
are dead but you get lucky

I suspect the trail runs cold in this case due to the
GNUFtp Hack incident of 2003
http://net-security.org/article.php?id=544


On 4 October 2014 14:22, Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de> wrote:
> Am Sat, 4 Oct 2014 00:19:06 +0100
> schrieb Riot <rain.backnet () gmail com>:
>
> > We then worked further back in time, unearthing bash 1.08.2 on an
> > ancient 1991 Atari ST image:
> > http://images.rymate.co.uk/images/iwaSGPo.png  This was also
> > vulnerable.  This version is relevant because the first version of
> > bash ported to linux was bash 1.08 - here's the original post by
> > Linus at the tender age of  advertising his first build of linux on
> > the minix newsgroup in 1991, explicitly mentioning bash 1.08.  This
> > datum told us that shellshock is older than all of linux, which makes
> > for a nice soundbite for the press.
> >
> > Going back further proved very difficult because few archives
> > including these early versions exist anywhere, and by all accounts
> > the early releases were buggy and not particularly portable.  We
> > eventually managed to locate an image for an obscure Japanese
> > Human68k containing bash 1.05.  Here it identifies itself as bash
> > 1.05 X6_19: http://images.rymate.co.uk/images/kH8VnTo.png  The file
> > is dated 12/08/1991... and of course it's vulnerable:
> > http://images.rymate.co.uk/images/zTYm05I.png
>
>
> Can you post the relevant download links to the atari st / 68k images
> and other possibly interesting stuff? Or where they from private
> archives?
>
> I think independently of current events this might be interesting for
> people digging in IT history, so having them somewhere easy to find
> would be nice.
>
> --
> Hanno Böck
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