What is happening about: The GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash) is a command line utility widely used in many Unix-based operating systems including Linux and OS X. Researchers have discovered a critical flaw in Bash which could allow remote code executi

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The GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash) is a command line utility widely used in many Unix-based operating systems including Linux and OS X.

Researchers have discovered a critical flaw in Bash which could allow remote code execution by an unauthenticated user

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Sep 26, 2014 12:07 AM

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Unless you're running a server, ignore it. If you're really interested, see the response to this posting.

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Also see:

If you are not running a web server

If you have not enabled CUPS web interface

If you do not allow anonymous users to ssh into your Mac.

If all are no, they you are not at risk.

This IS a very serious bug for web servers, but the typical consumer Mac user is not at risk.

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Excellent. Thank you very much. Good to hear [for me]. Sorry for others running servers, etc.

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Excellent. Thank you very much. Good to hear [for me]. Sorry for others running servers and using the other stuff. 🙂

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