Several security issues were fixed in Bash.
Florian Weimer and Todd Sabin discovered that the Bash parser incorrectly handled memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187)
27 September 2014
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
Several security issues were fixed in Bash.
Florian Weimer and Todd Sabin discovered that the Bash parser incorrectly handled memory. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain environment restrictions and execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187)
In addition, this update introduces a hardening measure which adds prefixes and suffixes around environment variable names which contain shell functions.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
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