Bitcoin at Risk: Major Vulnerability Discovered in GNU Bash
The National Vulnerability Database has issued a critical security advisory about a major vulnerability in GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash). GNU Bash is the command-line shell used in most operating systems based on Linux and Unix - including MacOS. A Red Hat security advisory said: "This issue is especially dangerous as there are many possible ways Bash can be called by an application,". The GNU Bash vulnerability was first discovered by Stephane Schazelas. Arstechnica writes: ... is related to how Bash processes environmental variables passed by the operating system or by a program calling....
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