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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:13:15 +0200
From: Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@...all.nl>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through bash (3rd vulnerability)

On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:07:34PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> This is a classic case of "yes the correct thing to do is..." but the
> reality is "we should fix this centrally rather than try to make
> everyone do the right thing (aka boiling the ocean)". This is like tmp
> vulns, it's 2014, the solution for tmp vulns is polyinstantiated /tmp
> per user, and per application /tmp dirs in addition to this. Solve it
> once centrally (e.g. in PAM/systemd) and boom, done.
> 
> We should always try to do the best/safest thing because most devs are
> going to try to do the most insanely dangerous thing.

That's the first sensible thing I've read on this whole topic :)

Cheers,
Peter
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