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

[Riot <rain.backnet () gmail com>]

Absolutely.

Bash versions back to 1.13 are all available on ftp.gnu, so not going to
list explicit links for those.

Bash 1.12 came from an this old slackware mirror:
http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/slackware/slackware-2.0.1/slacksrc/a/bash/bash-1.12.tar.gz

Other old slackware and debian releases from the era:
http://www.nielshorn.net/slackware/slack_old.php and
http://archive.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian-1.1/main/disks-i386/1996_6_16/

The atari bash 1.08 binary we used came from
http://www.umich.edu/~archive/atari/Gnustuff/Tos/Bash/Bash-108/  and was
tested in the steem engine emulator: https://code.google.com/p/steem-engine/

The Human68k bash came from
http://nfggames.com/x68000/Mirrors/Groundzero%20Organization/x68tools/gnu/bash/1.05/
and was tested using the XM6 Pro emulator:
http://mijet.eludevisibility.org/XM6%20Pro-68k/XM6%20Pro-68k.html with this
disk image to boot:
http://www.retropc.net/x68000/software/sharp/human302/index.htm


Regards,
Riot

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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