Tag: guard-dimension

Bash or “Shellshock” vulnerability

Summary News is breaking about a major new high severity vulnerability, CVE-2014-6271 , with widespread impact. Gnu Bourne again shell (Bash) is a UNIX like command shell that is included in most distributions of Linux and also Apple OS X. The vulnerability allows an attacker to create environment variables that include malicious code before the system calls the Bash shell.