[Security] Update the security update

Walter Dnes waltdnes-SLHPyeZ9y/tg9hUCZPvPmw at public.gmane.org
Fri Sep 26 08:30:30 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 10:03:22PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote

> ...with malicious stuff, and it could get ugly.  bash-4.2_p48 seems
> to fix this security hole.  The same "env" command results in...
> 
> bash: warning: x: ignoring function definition attempt
> bash: error importing function definition for `x'
> this is a test

  Additional problems have been discovered that were not addressed by
the first patch, so an updated patch has been released.  Make sure you
have at least bash-4.2_p48-r1 (Note the "-r1").

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