You may wish to test if your version of bash is still unpatched. It's
highly likely that you don't even need to cobble together a workaround
to partially protect yourself. If your version of bash is patched, you
don't have to do anything at all.

On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 4:22 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the links i've been reading for the last 4 hours. I am a very
> slow reader but I believe that at least part of the 'patch' so far at least
> on Mint 17 is:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    4 Dec 11 23:13 sh -> dash
>
> See above symlinked sh to dash now not bash.
>
> Thanks for responding and sending the links over.
>
>
>
>> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2015 02:20:23 -0600
>> From: chapinjeff at gmail.com
>> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
>> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Patch Bash ShellShock exploit with MKSH?
>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:44 PM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> > 1. Can I migrate to MKSH shell on my LinuxMint17 computer quite easily?
>> http://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/mksh
>>
>> Looks like it's in the Mint repos, so installing it is fairly easy.
>> Since it is related to ksh, and not bash, there will be a little bit
>> of a learning curve.
>>
>>
>> >
>> > 2. How necessary is this to be concerned about?
>>
>>
>> Not at all. Shellshock has been patched on most major modern OSes
>> since October. You can check if you are still on a vulnreble version
>> of bash following the directions here:
>>
>>
>> http://linuxg.net/canonical-has-patched-bash-agains-the-shellshock-exploit-update-your-ubuntu-14-04-or-ubuntu-12-04-system-now/
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Your thoughts are appreciated.
>> > Thank you,
>> >
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>>
>>
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