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defacto7

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2. The updates yesterday were incomplete...
Thu Sep 25, 2014, 11:28 PM
Sep 2014

Bash has another update today which should be utilized..

So update bash again... and hope this is a reasonable patch. Time will tell when they find out what scripts are vulnerable because it takes both bash and certain vulnerable scripts to make an exploit.

There are better links than this but it does the job:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/shellshock-computer-bug-already-exploited-by-hackers-1.2777514?cmp=rss

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Yikes defacto7 Sep 2014 #1
The updates yesterday were incomplete... defacto7 Sep 2014 #2
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