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You are confused. You say that you didn't get any updates on Debian, yet you say that it looks like Debian may have applied something. As I explained above, th
by gpvos 12y ago
You are confused. You say that you didn't get any updates on Debian, yet you say that it looks like Debian may have applied something.
As I explained above, the patch for CVE-7169 by Florian Weimer made bash invulnerable to code injection by arbitrary environment variables. The underlying bugs CVE-6277 and CVE-6278 therefore have no known attack vector from outside bash, though they can still be triggered from a shell script or the command line if they are not patched. Theoretically, they could become part of a different attack, so it's wise to patch them, but there's no hurry, since as long as you or Debian have applied the abovementioned patch for CVE-7169, it means there's currently no publicly-known exploit.
Also, Debian uses dash as its version of sh, so the problem can only occur if bash is called explicitly.