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From: fair-tuhs@netbsd.org (Erik E. Fair)
Subject: [TUHS] Interesting post by Rob Pike in 1985: Shells, features and interaction
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 17:56:28 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7694.1447811788@cesium.clock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877flgw816.fsf@fastmail.com>

That function export feature of bash was not the cause of the
Shellshock vulnerability.

The cause was idiot programmers who wrote CGI scripts for bash
without proper data sanitization.

See also
https://www.quora.com/Are-there-any-projects-to-replace-bash-the-Unix-shell/answer/Erik-Fair


	Erik <fair at netbsd.org>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-18  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-17 22:55 Random832
2015-11-18  0:38 ` Random832
2015-11-18  0:50 ` Brantley Coile
2015-11-18 12:47   ` Christian Neukirchen
2015-11-18  1:56 ` Erik E. Fair [this message]
2015-11-18  5:15   ` Kurt H Maier
2015-11-18  5:36   ` Random832

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