In the OS X Terminal you run commands in an interpreter called a shell. In general, you open a shell and then specify commands to execute within it; however, researchers have found a long-standing vulnerability in the popular shell called “bash” (the default for user accounts in OS X), where with a clever use of environmental variables for running the bash shell, an attacker can inject code to run in the shell without needing to directly enter it in the shell itself. Continue reading
Bash ‘shell shock’ vulnerability affects unix-based systems, including OS X
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