Introduction In the last post we saw how the recent bash vulnerability can be remotely exploited in a variety of ways. How do we defend against this? Below we discuss steps that will help your organization identify vulnerable components and initiate mitigation activities. Steps to identify, test and mitigate vulnerable systems Make an inventory […]
Introduction A remotely exploitable vulnerability was discovered by Stephane Chazelas of Akamai in the GNU Bash command shell. The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2014-6271. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on an affected system. The issue affects all UNIX and UNIX-like systems such as Linux […]
