Off topic -- Can anybody tell me what this means?

[Bill Oliver]

On Mon, 6 Oct 2014, Matthew Miller wrote:

> 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.
>
>

I sorta thought that, but I didn't think that sendmail was vulnerable to it...


billo