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Bug 1420674 - (CVE-2017-5932) CVE-2017-5932 bash: Code execution in bash autocompletion
CVE-2017-5932 bash: Code execution in bash autocompletion
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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impact=important,public=20170120,repo...
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Reported: 2017-02-09 04:42 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-02-10 09:17 EST (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-09 04:42:49 EST
A vulnerability was found in GNU bash. A maliciously crafted file could allow an arbitrary code execution through user trying to use the autocomplete feature.

External References:

https://github.com/jheyens/bash_completion_vuln/blob/master/2017-01-17.bash_completion_report.pdf

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/334

Upstream patch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=4f747edc625815f449048579f6e65869914dd715
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-09 04:44:39 EST
Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of bash as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as they did not include the commit which introduced it.

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