On Mon, Oct 06, 2014 at 11:07:16PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
First, I apologize for this not being fedora-specific, but I just
got
the oddest email. It looks like an intrusion attempt, trying to get
sendmail to execute a perl script. Is anybody familiar with this
particular pattern?
Oh my yes. This is a probe for CVE-2014-6271, a serious bug in bash known as
"shellshock". See
<
http://fedoramagazine.org/shellshock-how-does-it-actually-work/>.
If your system is up to date, you should be safe -- all major distributions
released patches quickly.
--
Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader