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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:32:42 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash

On 24-Sep-2014 22:01:50 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:

 >> I see no good workaround. Starting the forced command with
 >> "unset >SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND &&" does not help - we'd need
 >> to unset the variable before starting bash, not from bash.

 > Won't installing dash and setting the shell of users who have
 > forced commands to dash mitigate this somehow?

Possibly, that will require making /bin/sh symlink to point at
dash (or zsh, or whatever) as well...


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