"Shellshock" bash bug

Graham Watkins shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com
Sat Sep 27 12:48:35 UTC 2014


On 27/09/14 13:23, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On my Xubuntu, with freshly installed GNU bash, version
> 4.3.11(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) from bash package version
> 4.3-7ubuntu1.3, I get instead an error message as I showed originally.
> Bash remarks that it's refusing to honor the function definition, and
> reports it as an error.  Then it outputs the "this is a test" thing.
>
> For some reason, you're skipping that step.  Be careful about the quotes
> and such.
>
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 4:07 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com
> <mailto:clanlaw at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 27 September 2014 11:57, Graham Watkins
>     <shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com <mailto:shellycat.gw at ntlworld.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >> You were not supposed to copy the $, just from env
>     >> In the terminal you normally see $ at the point where you type the
>     >> command.
>     >>
>     >> Colin
>     >>
>     >
>     > Silly me. Thanks.
>     >
>     > Now I'm getting:
>     >
>     > env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable'  bash -c "echo this is a test"
>     > this is a test
>     >
>     > I take it this means I'm clean. Updates have given me a new bash twice this
>     > week,
>
>     Yes, that is good.
>
>     Colin
>
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> Kevin O'Gorman
> #define QUESTION ((bb) || (!bb))   /* Shakespeare */
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For what it's worth, I did not get that error message. What I quoted was 
exactly the terminal output I got.

Cheers,

Graham




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