ShellShock and Latest Version Problem

[René Berber]

On 10/4/2014 2:55 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote:

> According to the cygwin web site the latest version that contains
> the shellshock patch is 1.7.32. I ran setup-x86_64.exe to get the
> latest patches but I wind up with version 1.7.16 and nothing later
> is found. My cygwin test indicates it is still vulnerable. How do I
> get 1.7.32 if not through setup? TIA.

Shellshock is related to the bash version, not the Cygwin version.

If you updated Cygwin and think you still have an older version (of
Cygwin), that probably means that you didn't stop all processes that
use the Cygwin dll.

Updating Bash doesn't affect, or depend, on the Cygwin dll.
-- 
René Berber


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