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Title: Apple releases patches for OS X's 'Shellshock' Bash shell vulnerability Post by: HCK on September 30, 2014, 03:00:19 pm Apple releases patches for OS X's 'Shellshock' Bash shell vulnerability
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple released a patch Monday for Shellshock, a serious software vulnerability disclosed last week, although the company had said it posed no risk to most users.</p><p> Shellshock is the nickname for a flaw in the GNU Bourne Again Shell (http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/), or Bash, which is a command-line shell processor used for sending commands to an operating system. It is prevalent in Unix and Linux systems.</p><p> The flaw in Bash, which has been present for two decades, could allow an attacker to take complete control of a computer if the software is remotely accessible. An attacker could append malicious commands into a CGI (Common Gateway Interface) request, which would then be processed by a server.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2689432/apple-patches-bash-vulnerability-in-os-x.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Apple releases patches for OS X's 'Shellshock' Bash shell vulnerability (http://www.macworld.com/article/2689432/apple-patches-bash-vulnerability-in-os-x.html#tk.rss_all) |