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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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Chris_Bryant
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Sep 27, 2014
Harvard wrote:
So the big question becomes, who put it there and how much data mining has been done over the years to exploit it since it was coded?


Nobody "put it in there" any more than Microsoft put in vulnerabilities in the Windows OS. As to how much data has been mined- none.

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