[Python-Dev] Critical bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 may affect Python on nx and OSX (original) (raw)

Cameron Simpson cs at zip.com.au
Fri Sep 26 04:55:47 CEST 2014


On 25Sep2014 21:30, Tres Seaver <tseaver at palladion.com> wrote:

On 09/25/2014 08:59 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:

Your cable/adsl modem? Probably an embedded Linux box, possibly using bash, and certainly a dhcp client of the ISP. Better still, for many people that same comprimisable modem is the DHCP server for their home LAN... Generally those devices are not using bash as '/bin/sh': it is too heavyweigh. Most will use 'busybox' or some other Swiss-army command for stuff which is separate commands on a "normal" linux system.

Fair point.

Cheers, Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977



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