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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2016-f15168439d
2016-10-12 18:56:55.305586
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Name : bash
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 4.3.42
Release : 5.fc23
URL :
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash
Summary : The GNU Bourne Again shell
Description :
The GNU Bourne Again shell (Bash) is a shell or command language
interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh). Bash
incorporates useful features from the Korn shell (ksh) and the C shell
(csh). Most sh scripts can be run by bash without modification.
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Update Information:
Specially crafted SHELLOPTS and PS4 variables can cause arbitrary code
execution. It is a security bug described in CVE-2016-7543 and this update
fixes it.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1379634 - CVE-2016-7543 bash: Specially crafted SHELLOPTS+PS4 variables
allows command substitution [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1379634
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su -c 'yum update bash' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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