[Python-Dev] Critical bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 may affect Python on *n*x and OSX

[Tres Seaver]

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On 09/25/2014 08:59 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> Your cable/adsl modem? Probably an embedded Linux box, possibly using
> bash, and certainly a dhcp client of the ISP. Better still, for many
> people that same comprimisable modem is the DHCP _server_ for their
> home LAN...

Generally those devices are *not* using bash as '/bin/sh':  it is too
heavyweigh.  Most will use 'busybox' or some other Swiss-army command for
stuff which is separate commands on a "normal" linux system.


Tres.
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