SMASH the Bash bug! Red Hat, Apple scramble for patch batches

By | September 29, 2014

‘Applying multiple security updates is extremely difficult’

Source: www.theregister.co.uk

A fresh dump of Shellshock patches were released on Friday night in the latest move to stamp out the Bash shell security vuln that has the potential to blight millions of Linux, Unix and Mac OS X machines.

Red Hat said in a blog post that the threat from Shellshock was receding now that patches had been issued for most operating systems affected by the bug.

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