[clug] Security talk and the bash 'shellshock' vulnerability

Carlo Hamalainen carlo at carlo-hamalainen.net
Sat Sep 27 05:11:54 MDT 2014


Hi,

The gift that keeps on giving...

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2014-09/msg00211.html

$ cat <<EOF >test.sh
#!/bin/bash
cat /dev/null
EOF

$ chmod a+x test.sh
$ env cat='() { echo rm -rf /; }' ./test.sh

This will echo rm -fr /.

--
Carlo Hamalainen
http://carlo-hamalainen.net


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