Re: Bash 2.05b patch for 896776 - (CVE-2014-6271) ?

[Chet Ramey]

On 9/26/14, 4:53 AM, Jean-Christian de Rivaz wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> While this can seem completely obsolete, I still have machines running bash
> 2.05b (Debian etch). I worry about upgrading to bash 3.x because of some
> backward compatibility issue.
> It there any reason why there was no patch for bash 2.05b ? The test
> command below show that the bug also affect this version:
> 
> j$ bash --version
> GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu)
> Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> j$ env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"
> vulnerable
> this is a test

Here's one.  Two, actually, one for each CVE.

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