On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:07:16PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote: > First, I apologize for this not being fedora-specific, but I just got > the oddest email. It looks like an intrusion attempt, trying to get > sendmail to execute a perl script. Is anybody familiar with this > particular pattern?
Oh my yes. This is a probe for CVE-2014-6271, a serious bug in bash known as "shellshock". See <http://fedoramagazine.org/shellshock-how-does-it-actually-work/>. If your system is up to date, you should be safe -- all major distributions released patches quickly. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
