BASH security vulnerability

[Marc Tremblay]

I can't believe I left that out of my email.

The Shellshock vulnerability.

I apologize for that.

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From: lubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:lubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of John Niendorf
Sent: October-08-14 3:25 PM
To: lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: BASH security vulnerability

Hi Marc,

Just to be clear, what vulnerability do you mean?

John

On 10/08/2014 09:22 PM, Marc Tremblay wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I work for a school board in Montreal, Quebec and we are transitioning 
> over to GAFE. This transition has allowed the acceptance of Ubuntu
> (Lubuntu) as a perfect solution for converting our older labs which 
> painfully run on Windows 7.
> 
>  
> 
> In a meeting this morning the issue of the BASH security vulnerability 
> was brought up as a reason not to go the Ubuntu open source route. I 
> need to find out if this security vulnerability is something we should 
> be worried about to the point of not moving forward with this project.
> It would mean 1000 of computers being sent for recycling instead of 
> repurposing them with FOSS.
> 
>  
> 
> Any thoughts??
> 
>  
> 
> Marc Tremblay
> 
> Educational Services Dept
> 
> Lester B. Pearson School Board
> 
> 1925 Brookdale
> 
> Dorval, H9P 2Y7
> 
>  
> 
> mtremblay at lbpsb.qc.ca <mailto:mtremblay at lbpsb.qc.ca>
> 
>  
> 
> 
> 

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