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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 09:42:53 -0700
From: Tim <tim-security@...tinelchicken.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash
> >> 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...
Right, and it makes sense to do this. Bash doesn't belong as /bin/sh
to begin with. It's slow to load, uses 5 times as much memory as dash
and doesn't exactly encourage you to write posix-compliant shell
scripts. Bash's redeeming qualities lie in it's UI, not in it's
non-interactive scripting.
tim
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