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Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock

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Cisco, Oracle find dozens of their products affected by Shellshock
Cisco Systems and Oracle are hard at work identifying networking and other products in their portfolios that are affected by the critical Shellshock vulnerability.The Shellshock vulnerability and several related ones found over the past week stem from errors in how the Bash command-line interpreter for Unix and Linux systems parses strings passed to it by external scripts. The flaws allow attackers to trick certain processes running on vulnerable machines to pass malicious strings to Bash that would then get executed as commands on the underlying OS.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More


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