Monday, September 29, 2014

“Serious bug OS X and Linux since 1992 present” – NU.nl

That says developer Chet Ramey, who Bash has maintained for the last twenty-two years compared with The New York Times .

The bug, called Shell Shock, is in the bash shell of the software, the command-line tool that allows users to execute code. their own system

Attackers can via a malicious Web site code in the Bash shell injection , allowing them to execute their own code remotely and OS X and Linux machines can take over. Meanwhile, there are a few updates to Bash released, but the bug is still not fully resolved.

Ramey says he probably added in 1992, during the development of the software. Bug accidentally Bash During that time he worked voluntarily to the open source code of Bash, where other companies can then create free.

As companies new software based on the open source of mostly volunteers continued the bug in all versions of OS X and Linux exist.

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