[Discuss] Shellshock

[Derek Martin]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 05:33:58PM -0400, Bill Ricker wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:59 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+blu at gmail.com> wrote:
> > But in the case of CGI you are just moving the network/local
> > barrier a bit further down the stack.
> 
> and moved it right through system() => /bin/sh => /bin/bash by alias
> which last wasn't designed to be network secure.

Of course, anyone who's writing CGI scripts and using system() should be
fired.  This has been well-known as a very serious security hole for
oh, just about as long as the CGI interface has existed, so anyone
still doing this now is either lazy to the point of malice or just not
qualified to do the job. 

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