Shellshock / Bashbug quick check

Given the latest news on the Shellshock aka Bashbug vulnerability, I modified a public command line check.

Backstory:  Unix systems (includes Linux & the Mac OS, OSX) have shells for their command line windows.  Bash is common.  A vulnerability was found and this has fairly large implications.   More detail is available online:

Internet Security Center detail

US Gov detail

My modification to the command line script is:

env x='() { :;}; printf “need to patch, not “‘ bash -c ‘echo okay’ 2> /dev/null

Jim – 09/26/14 @itbycrayon  (I don’t accept general LinkedIn invites – but if you say you read my blog, it will change my mind)