"ShellShock" - what are you doing?

[Mike Kerner]

Now we're working on round 3, by the way.  There are some more things that
are coming out from fuzzing the parser.  We'll see what the short and
medium-term plans are, but if I read it right, there are probably 3-5 more
patches, minimum, coming.

On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:04 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 9/27/2014, 4:58 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote:
>
>> Some of the articles about the vulnerability make it sound like every
>> Mac on the planet could be taken over by bad guys. Talk about
>> spreading FUD!
>>
>
> Yeah. I think a lot of servers will be in trouble, but fewer consumers
> than the media makes it out to be. I have discovered:
>
> Android doesn't use a shell at all.
> iOS probably doesn't use a shell (but the article wasn't certain.)
> OS X isn't affected unless you're running a web server.
> Windows isn't affected.
> Most routers don't use bash because it is too large to fit into their
> relatively small amount of flash memory. (D-Link has a statement saying
> none of their routers use bash.)
>
> So it seems to me that Apache servers and 'nix users need updating but
> other consumers are for the most part okay, including mobile users.
>
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