USN-2363-1: Bash vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 14.04 ESM
• Ubuntu 12.04
• Ubuntu 10.04

Packages

• bash - GNU Bourne Again SHell

Details

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the security fix for Bash included in
USN-2362-1 was incomplete. An attacker could use this issue to bypass
certain environment restrictions. (CVE-2014-7169)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 14.04

• bash - 4.3-7ubuntu1.2

Ubuntu 12.04

• bash - 4.2-2ubuntu2.3

Ubuntu 10.04

• bash - 4.1-2ubuntu3.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-7169

Related notices

• USN-2363-2: bash-builtins, bash-doc, bash-static, bash