[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: bash-4.3.22-3.fc21

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Sat Sep 27 10:03:24 UTC 2014


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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-11295
2014-09-24 18:08:59
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Name        : bash
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.3.22
Release     : 3.fc21
URL         : http://www.gnu.org/software/bash
Summary     : The GNU Bourne Again shell
Description :
The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language
interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash
incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell
(csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification.

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Update Information:

Disclosure - http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/24/10

Behaviour prior to patch:

$ env x='() { :;}; echo OOPS' bash -c /usr/sbin/nologin OOPS This account is currently not available.


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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1141597 - CVE-2014-6271 bash: specially-crafted environment variables can be used to inject shell commands
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1141597
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