Shellshock Bug

[LJHerskowitz]

Apparenty a bug was discovered in Bash called Shellshock, http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-29361794. Where do we go to find the patch to fix this flaw?

[Sanjay_C.]

Hello LJHerskowitz,

Thanks for getting in touch with us about this. Since finding out about this vulnerability yesterday, our R&D teams have been looking into how much this affects NI Linux Real-Time systems. We will keep the community up to date on our findings as we continue to characterize the impact of this vulnerability.

So far, our investiagtion hasn't yielded any reason for panic. Once we complete our investigation, we'll be able to follow up with a patch if/as necessary.

[rtollert]

The 2014 package feed server has been updated with packages for bash 4.2.51; current guidance is that this version fixes all known critical issues. `opkg update; opkg install bash` to upgrade your runmode. To verify that you have the fix, run `bash --version` and verify that it's version 4.2.51.