New “Shellshock” patch rushed out to resolve gaps in first fix

Posted by BernardSwiss on Sep 27, 2014 8:12 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Sean Gallagher
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After the discovery that a patch designed to repair the “Shellshock” vulnerability in the GNU Bourne Again Shell (bash) still allowed for an attacker to execute commands on a remote system, Red Hat, Ubuntu, and other Linux distribution providers have pushed out a second fix to the vulnerability. At the same time, security researchers and service providers have detected a surge in scans for systems with the vulnerability, as would-be attackers seek to take advantage of the bug.

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