Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-186 - A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:186
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : bash
Date : September 24, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted
environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or
bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain
services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to
provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue
(CVE-2014-6271).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6271
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1293.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
ee177bd2ef1c738689a7d04b166dc516 mbs1/x86_64/bash-4.2-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
f73489d530f8c2467c4fa353bfbe61b5 mbs1/x86_64/bash-doc-4.2-6.2.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
062d5951a3a0bbbeb06fa292c8e3992b mbs1/SRPMS/bash-4.2-6.2.mbs1.src.rpm
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