Dear Experts,
I was wondering if it could be a good workaround to link /bin/sh to tcsh
instead of bash. I'm not using bash at all but probably something in the
system is so do you know some contraindication on a system with apache
and SVN servers?

Thanks
Walter

On Wed, 24 Sep 2014, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/09/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-security-hole-on-anything-with-nix-in-it/

From the article:

The vulnerability affects versions 1.14 through 4.3 of GNU Bash. [...]
To check your system, from a command line, type:

env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"

If the system is vulnerable, the output will be:

       vulnerable
        this is a test

An unaffected (or patched) system will output:

$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
        bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
        bash: error importing function definition for `x'
        this is a test

I tried it and got the positive (vulnerable) result.

Can we assume a patched version of Bash will be released shortly?

poc



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