CGI::Application and recent bash security hole

Dave Cross dave at dave.org.uk
Fri Sep 26 16:11:10 BST 2014


Quoting gvim <gvimrc at gmail.com>:

>>
>> There's a second vulnerability that escapes the first bug patch.
>>
>>  env X="() { (a)=>\\" bash -c '/dev/stdout date'
>>
>> If this prints the date, you still have a hole where bash can write content
>> to arbitrary files. ( And this trick somehow makes it write the date to
>> /dev/stdout.  )
>>
>
> Kreist, I'm up **it Creek after all :(

Your distro almost certainly has a second patch already available.  
Just update your installed package.

This article seems pretty good:

   http://perltricks.com/article/115/2014/9/26/Shellshock-and-Perl

Dave...



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