"Shellshock" bash bug

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 27 September 2014 13:23, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> 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.
>>
>
> Kevin, if you try updating again you will (or will shortly) get another
> update to bash that fixes the error.
>
> Colin
>
>
Indeed.  I got an update and it's "fixed".  I actually liked it better when
bash told me someone was trying a hack.  But maybe that causes other
problems......

-- 
Kevin O'Gorman
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