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Re: Bash security issue
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Eric Blake |
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Re: Bash security issue |
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Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:55:45 -0600 |
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On 09/25/2014 07:51 AM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> It may be that some users of 'autoconf' will be at risk due to the dire
> bash security bug described at
> "http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/24/bash_shell_vuln/";.
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> Take care that the environment is carefully vetted.
There's nothing that ./configure can do to avoid the buggy bash, but it
may indeed be worth patching autoconf to generate configure scripts that
issue a loud warning if the buggy shell is detected on the user's
system. I'll look into doing that.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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