shellshock - detect in Apache?

[Gary Stainburn]

>
> Another option would be to build the latest version of bash.
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu  has serveral versions of bash a number of them have
> patch directories with Sep 24th date.
>
> I download the
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3.tar.gz
> and the patches in
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-4.3-patches/
>
> Installed the 25 patches and then build the code.
> Running the test on that version of bash passes the test.
>
> Don't know if there would be any issues with then replacing the older bash
> on a system with the newly build one, but that didn't take much time to
> build.

Thanks for this Michael.

I'll attempt this. As someone who hasn't built from source code in decades, 
how do I apply the patches to the source tree before building?

Gary