Bash bug as big as Heartbleed

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Thursday, September 25th, 2014
Bash bug as big as Heartbleed
Today’s bash bug is as big a deal as Heartbleed. That’s for many reasons. The first reason is that the bug interacts with other software in unexpected ways. We know that interacting with the shell is dangerous, but we write code that does it anyway.

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