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1492
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Sep 25, 2014

Years Old Vulnerability Discovered in Linux and Mac OS X?

A new vulnerability reported by a Stéphane Chazelas, a French Unix/Linux specialist, has been discovered in BASH shell code used in popular Unix based systems, such as Linux, Mac OS X, and some Androi...
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bwanshoom
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Sep 25, 2014
Servers are easy to patch (assuming the patch is available - still waiting on Redhat), but what about all the embedded systems out there like routers, printers, set top boxes, etc? This could be very ugly since it's far easier to totally own a device with Shellshock than it was via Heartbleed. Ugh.

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