Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-190

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-190 – It was found that the fix for was incomplete, and Bash still allowed certain characters to be injected into other environments via specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue. Additionally bash has been updated from patch level 37 to 48 using the upstream patches at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.2-patches/ which resolves various bugs.

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