[Linux-aus] What's the real story about Shellshock and Bash and vulnerabilities in Linux and OpenSource?

[Paul Gear]

On 26/09/14 17:17, Steve Dalton wrote:
> I talked about it constructively with some people at my current client
> today (a large financial institution).
>
> [Incidentally it was nice to see that all the servers I had access to
> had been patched already. They are Redhat shop - so I'm guessing a lot
> of this happened quite seamlessly.]
>
> Talked at our standup-meeting about the good side of this (how FLOSS
> works in general and how people come together at times like this). I
> used this FSF press release for a bit of inspiration
>
> http://www.fsf.org/news/free-software-foundation-statement-on-the-gnu-bash-shellshock-vulnerability
>
> I think as members of the community it's important that we try to
> educate our colleagues and combat the FUD that inevitably happens when
> things like this come up.

Great link - thanks Steve.

Paul