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Patch Bash NOW: 'Shellshock' bug blasts OS X, Linux systems wide open

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We are not out of the woods yet

Red Hat has become aware that the patch for CVE-2014-6271 is incomplete.

"Update: 2014-09-25 03:10 UTC

Red Hat has become aware that the patch for CVE-2014-6271 is incomplete. An attacker can provide specially-crafted environment variables containing arbitrary commands that will be executed on vulnerable systems under certain conditions. The new issue has been assigned CVE-2014-7169. Red Hat is working on patches in conjunction with the upstream developers as a critical priority. For details on a workaround, please see the FAQ below."

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