GLSA-201410-01 : Bash: Multiple vulnerabilities (Shellshock)
Critical Nessus Plugin ID 78060
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201410-01 (Bash: Multiple vulnerabilities)
Florian Weimer, Todd Sabin, Michal Zalewski et al. discovered further parsing flaws in Bash. The unaffected Gentoo packages listed in this GLSA contain the official patches to fix the issues tracked as CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-7186, and CVE-2014-7187. Furthermore, the official patch known as “function prefix patch” is included which prevents the exploitation of CVE-2014-6278.
Impact :
A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary commands or cause a Denial of Service condition via various vectors.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All Bash 3.1 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-shells/bash-3.1_p22:3.1' All Bash 3.2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-shells/bash-3.2_p56:3.2' All Bash 4.0 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-shells/bash-4.0_p43:4.0' All Bash 4.1 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-shells/bash-4.1_p16:4.1' All Bash 4.2 users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=app-shells/bash-4.2_p52'