bash: code execution via specially-crafted environment (Incomplete fix for CVE-2014-6271)

It was found that the fix for CVE-2014-6271 was incomplete, and Bash still allowed certain characters to be injected into other environments via specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could potentially use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell...

Bash environment variable code injection over HTTP

Added: 09/26/2014 CVE: CVE-2014-6271 BID: 70103 OSVDB: 112004 Background GNU Bash Bourne Again SHell is a command shell commonly used on Linux and Unix systems. Problem The Bash shell executes commands injected after function definitions contained in environment variables. This could be used by a...