[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <54295975.4050809@case.edu>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:07:01 -0400
From: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@...e.edu>
To: Giles Coochey <giles.coochey@...secspec.co.uk>,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: chet.ramey@...e.edu
Subject: Re: Re: CVE-2014-6271: remote code execution through
bash (3rd vulnerability)
On 9/29/14, 8:55 AM, Giles Coochey wrote:
> On 29/09/2014 12:17, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>> HI Chet, As you are aware, a sixth security issue has been discovered.
>> Due to the nature of the vulnerability, I believe that it's best to break
>> backward compatibility as done by FreeBSD and NetBSD until a proper patch
>> is developed. We are lucky to have security researchers reporting their
>> findings publicly. What about others that don't ? I strongly believe that
>> it's much safer to have it disabled, and have a complete and
>> comprehensive audit of the source code, and then re-enable it.
>
> Am I the only one who is wondering: Who is paying Chet to do this?
Nobody is paying me to do this.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@...e.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Please check out the
Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this
mailing list.
Confused about mailing lists and their use?
Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia
and check out these
guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.
