CVE-2014-7169 is an additional security issue in the GNU bash shell that emerged after researchers discovered the fixes for CVE-2014-6271 did not completely solve the vulnerabilities they had identified. Fedora Magazine has a very useful story that tells you why these issues are important. Since I already published a story …
IMPORTANT: Refer to this update for revised instructions. What is CVE-2014-6271? CVE-2014-6271 is a GNU bash vulnerability that permits specially-crafted environment variables to inject shell commands. This is a fairly serious issue. If you don’t want to wait out the hours until stable updates are issued to fix your Fedora …
I often make typos, and sometimes I hit a key combo when I don’t mean to. (That never happens to you right? Right?) One of my most common goof s is hitting several of the same key combination in a row, such as Ctrl+D to exit shells. I might find …