Debian Security Advisory
DLA-63-1 bash -- LTS security update
- Date Reported:
- 26 Sep 2014
- Affected Packages:
- bash
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 762760, Bug 762761.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-7169. - More information:
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Tavis Ormandy discovered that the patch applied to fix CVE-2014-6271 released in DLA-59-1 for bash, the GNU Bourne-Again Shell, was incomplete and could still allow some characters to be injected into another environment (CVE-2014-7169). With this update prefix and suffix for environment variable names which contain shell functions are added as hardening measure.
Additionally two out-of-bounds array accesses in the bash parser are fixed which were revealed in Red Hat's internal analysis for these issues and also independently reported by Todd Sabin.
For Debian 6
Squeeze
, these issues have been fixed in bash version 4.1-3+deb6u2