[Info-vax] And now bash has a vulnerability Was: Re: Malware in kernel mode OT: Larry Ellison takes retirement as CEO of Oracle

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-25, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-09-25, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>>
>> A lot of software has similar problems, including SQL with SQL injection
>> problems.
>
> Yes, even in this day and age, Bobby Tables mother still has plenty
> of opportunities to be, hmm, "creative". :-(

Which emphasises the comment I made the other day about VSI being aware
of malware.  I wasn't only thinking of possible attack vectors in VMS
itself, but in the general infrastructure VSI will adopt.

There's "boring" stuff like office packages, accounts and other bitsw and
pieces any commercial enterprise has to run, of course...

... and then there's the software distribution process.  I imagine that
quite a few folks would like to get away from the oft-flaky nature of
HP's patch distribution service.

P.S. Simon, your newly amended sig doesn't read very well when taken as a
whole.  You have sort of left an attack vector open ;.(

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