First attacks using 'shellshock' Bash bug discovered

JMH · Sep 25, 2014

Within a day of the Bash bug dubbed 'shellshock' being disclosed, it appears that attackers are already looking for ways to use it for their advantage.

Security researchers have found proof of concept code that attempts to exploit the serious bug discovered this week in Bourne-Again Shell, also known as Bash, which according to US CERT affects both Linux and Mac OS X.

The good news yesterday that some Linux distributions shipped patches for the bug yesterday has already been tempered by the discovery that those patches only partially dealt with potential attacks. In an update overnight, Red Hat said that it was developing a new patch, however, it is still advising users to apply the incomplete one for now.

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First attacks using 'shellshock' Bash bug discovered

JMH

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