Laptops create another kind of problem for me.  They have up-to-date 
Ubuntu, but they mostly sit around unused until I need to take one to a 
meeting.  Then I use it at the meeting, but there's no time then to update 
the software.  Unless I remember to do it later, it doesn't get patched.


On Sun, 2 Nov 2014, Mike Miller wrote:

> That's good, but some of my machines are not getting the updates, so I have 
> to watch better for these things than I have been.  On the other hand, I'm 
> probably vulnerable unless I'm running a CGI-based web server or I have a 
> malicious user.  So I might have dodge this bullet.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2014, Ryan Coleman wrote:
>
>> Yep. FreeBSD and Ubuntu (my two systems) both had patches up within 48 
>> hours.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 1, 2014, at 5:27 PM, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> Yeah, that was ages ago (in computer terms). Pretty sure all the main 
>>> distros have already addressed it.
>>> 
>>> On Sat, 1 Nov 2014, Mike Miller wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I'm surprised this didn't come up here.
>>>> 
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug)
>>>> 
>>>> I didn't know about it until today.  That's my fault because I get SANS 
>>>> Newsletter and I haven't been reading it!
>>>> 
>>>> Mike
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