BASH Shellshock and FreeBSD 4.X

Brian W. brian at brianwhalen.net
Sun Sep 28 21:40:09 UTC 2014


For your ancient system I would do 2 things.
1 Run one of the well publicized ways to check your system and see if it is
vulnerable. The ancientness of your system suggests someone doesn't care
honestly.
2 If it is then try to get the bash using users to another shell.
 On Sep 28, 2014 2:28 PM, "Everett Batey" <efbatey at gmail.com> wrote:

> For SO OLD an FBSD .. will this try to immediately move me up over a
> decade and maybe crash my very highly depended OLDBSD server ???
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Brian W. <brian at brianwhalen.net> wrote:
> > Re the bash query do you use portsnap? Presuming the old package system
> the
> > easiest answer is portsnap fetch update and then portupgrade -P bash.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On Sep 28, 2014 1:59 PM, "Everett Batey" <efbatey at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Severely stuck in Time - OLD FBSD .. any bright ideas around /bin/bash
> >> risks AND NOT DONT TELL ME UPDATE FBSD .. - Dependencies I can NOT
> >> escape ..
> >>
> >> On other hand for FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p7 is there an equivalent of yum
> >> update bash?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>  Thnx /  Everett (Flames PLEASE, I old and Cold)
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