Shell Shock 2: The AfterShock

September 26th, 2014 by

As has been widely reported, a very major vulnerability in the bash shell was announced a couple of days ago (the event has been dubbed “Shell Shock” by the media). Sadly, the first set of updates released were insufficient to close the hole completely (“AfterShock” is the catchy name). Further updates were released late last night. These have been applied to all Mythic Beasts internal servers, and all managed customer servers.

Customers with unmanaged servers are urged to apply this second set of updates as quickly as possible.

So far, Apple have not released any updates for OS X. The version of bash distributed with OS X is demonstrably vulnerable to the security bug, so no doubt updates will be forthcoming. In the mean time, one possibility is to build bash from source; instructions for doing so can be found on the Internet.

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