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Perfsonar and shellshock
- Subject: Perfsonar and shellshock
- From: list at satchell.net (Stephen Satchell)
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 05:55:22 -0700
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On 09/29/2014 05:23 AM, Leif Nixon wrote:
> Please guys,
>
> If everybody could patch their perfsonar boxen against shellshock LIKE
> RIGHT NOW, or preferably LAST WEEK, or alternatively put the machines
> out of their misery with a shotgun, that would be great.
>
> Thank you,
>
>From the perfSonar site:
"perfSONAR is recommending that all users run yum update to download the
latest packages from the CentOS repositories"
This will need to be done again in a couple of weeks, when a "better"
patch becomes available from the FSF or wherever.
By the way, the history of the development of bash is mildly
interesting. http://www.wired.com/2014/09/shellshocked-bash/