[slackware-security] bash

New bash packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: patches/packages/bash-4.2.050-i486-1slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. Another bash update. Here's some information included with the...

bash -- remote code execution vulnerability

Chet Ramey reports: Under certain circumstances, bash will execute user code while processing the environment for exported function definitions. The original fix released for CVE-2014-6271 was not adequate. A similar vulnerability was discovered and tagged as CVE-2014-7169...