Apple releases patches for OS X's 'Shellshock' Bash shell vulnerability<article>
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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, 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>
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Apple releases patches for OS X's 'Shellshock' Bash shell vulnerability
