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openSUSE 11.4: SU-2014:1248-1 Important: Bash Parser Protection

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Calendar Grey September 28, 2014
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Urgent security patch released for openSUSE's bash to enhance safety by turning off environment function imports.
An update that contains security fixes can now be installed

Description

This update for bash completely disables the importing of shell functions

from the environment and thereby remove the exposure of the parser from

untrusted/harmful environment.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4:

zypper in -t patch 2014-90

To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

Package List

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (i586 x86_64):

bash-4.1-20.35.1

bash-debuginfo-4.1-20.35.1

bash-debugsource-4.1-20.35.1

bash-devel-4.1-18.35.1

bash-loadables-4.1-18.35.1

bash-loadables-debuginfo-4.1-18.35.1

libreadline6-6.1-18.35.1

libreadline6-debuginfo-6.1-18.35.1

readline-devel-6.1-18.35.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (x86_64):

bash-debuginfo-32bit-4.1-20.35.1

libreadline6-32bit-6.1-18.35.1

libreadline6-debuginfo-32bit-6.1-18.35.1

readline-devel-32bit-6.1-18.35.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (noarch):

bash-doc-4.1-18.35.1

bash-lang-4.1-20.35.1

readline-doc-6.1-18.35.1

- openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 (ia64):

bash-debuginfo-x86-4.1-20.35.1

bash-x86-4.1-20.35.1

libreadline6-debuginfo-x86-6.1-18.35.1

libreadline6-x86-6.1-18.35.1

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=896776

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2014:1248-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Evergreen 11.4 .

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