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Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:32:46 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...e.edu>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
CC: chet.ramey@...e.edu, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash
On 9/24/14, 6:27 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 12:08:46PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> On 9/24/14, 11:16 AM, Solar Designer wrote:
>>
>>> I see no good workaround.
>>
>> You're correct; there is not a good workaround. Since there are publicly
>> available patches for all bash versions back 15 years or so, though, the
>> best path forward is to apply those as quickly as possible.
>
> Thank You for providing those patches! It is rare for an upstream
> author to provide security fix backports going this far back, and it is
> really helpful in this case.
Thanks for the kind words. In this spirit, I've attached a patch for
bash-2.05b, since I've been told that there are still systems running it
out there.
Chet
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@...e.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
Download attachment "funcdef-import-2.05b.patch" of type "application/x-patch" (2472 bytes)
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