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nitrogen on Oct 1, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inside Shellshock: How hackers are using it to exp...

Debian has lots of Bash scripts in /usr/bin. Make sure you aren't indirectly using any of them. Or just patch Bash.

xorcist on Oct 1, 2014 [–]

Yeah, that's an important point to stress:

Whether you have been vulnerable to this bug or not is important -- for the decision to wipe and reinstall.

It's not important for the decision to patch, which should be done everywhere possible.

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