First published: Tue Sep 20 2016(Updated: )
A vulnerability was found in a way bash expands the $HOSTNAME. Injecting the hostname with malicious code would cause it to run each time bash expanded \h in the prompt string. References: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/528">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q3/528</a> Ubuntu bug: <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1507025">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1507025</a>
Credit: secalert_us@oracle.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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GNU Bash | =4.3 |
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