[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: bash-4.3.25-2.fc21
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Sat Sep 27 10:08:26 UTC 2014
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-11718
2014-09-27 08:49:48
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Name : bash
Product : Fedora 21
Version : 4.3.25
Release : 2.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:
Fix for cve-2014-7169
You can use this test: env X='() { (a)=>\' sh -c "OVERWRITE echo 'File OVERWRITE now contains this sentence.'"
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1146319 - CVE-2014-7169 bash: code execution via specially-crafted environment (Incomplete fix for CVE-2014-6271)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1146319
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