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Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« on: October 01, 2014, 10:08:51 am »
Not wanting to start a panic or anything, but thought I should ask the question seeing as we are all using Linux and not only that, using it as a gateway/router.

I had an email come round at work warning us of this potential weakness. It was recommended we run the following command...
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env X="() { :;} ; echo vulnerable" /bin/sh -c "echo this is a test

...to see if we are vulnerable. If I am to believe this test, then apparently I am.

What can we do, if anything?

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2014, 11:47:13 am »
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apt-get update && apt-get upgradeshould sort you out - updated bash packages have been released already.

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2014, 01:20:01 pm »
Yeah I was afraid somebody might say that :-)

Is there any way to upgrade only the packages affected by this issue?

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2014, 02:07:53 pm »
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sudo apt-get install bash
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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2014, 04:12:40 pm »
I'm getting the following error:

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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  bash-doc
Recommended packages:
  bash-completion
The following packages will be upgraded:
  bash
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 172 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/647kB of archives.
After this operation, 57.3kB disk space will be freed.
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
  bash
Authentication warning overridden.
(Reading database ... 132533 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bash 4.1-2ubuntu3 (using .../bash_4.1-2ubuntu3.4_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bash ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-2ubuntu3.4_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/bin/sh', which is also in package dash 0:0.5.5.1-3ubuntu2
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/man/man7/bash-builtins.7.gz to provide /usr/share/man/man7/builtins.7.gz (builtins.7.gz) in auto mode.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.1-2ubuntu3.4_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I have tried "sudo apt-get install --true-upgrade bash" and "sudo apt-get install --reinstall bash" also.

Cheers,
Matt.

EDIT: Could I chroot from a live CD or something? If yes, to what directory? Or have I misunderstood how one uses chroot?
« Last Edit: October 01, 2014, 04:19:42 pm by purps »
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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2014, 11:20:36 am »
Saw that but didn't twig that it was the issue I was having, thanks.

I followed the steps to make dash the default shell. I guess that solves the problem in itself.

I tried to then upgrade bash, but it said it was at the newest version - as far as I am aware it never got upgraded. So in any event I hope I'm safe.

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2014, 06:29:55 pm »
Keep in mind that the majority of LMCE scripts are bash based and are not compatible with dash.  You will want to ensure that bash is updated and functional.

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2014, 01:49:00 am »
You really want to patch your bash.  There are 6 CVE alerts against this, all with a CVSS score of 10 (meaning really bad).  I've been dealing with this at work, on almost every flavor of *nix out there.

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sudo apt-get update && cat /etc/lsb-release && sudo apt-cache policy bash
If Candidate is not the same as Installed, you're not patched to the latest available.

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DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS"
bash:
  Installed: 4.2-2ubuntu2.5
  Candidate: 4.2-2ubuntu2.5
  Version table:
 *** 4.2-2ubuntu2.5 0


Your version number should be equal or greater than the ones listed at this link:

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-7187.html

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx):   released (4.1-2ubuntu3.4)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin):   released (4.2-2ubuntu2.5)
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr):   released (4.3-7ubuntu1.4)
Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn):   released (4.3-9ubuntu4)

The gory details are all here:

http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-6271.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-6277.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-6278.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-7169.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-7186.html
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-7187.html

Hope that helps!

/Mike
« Last Edit: October 03, 2014, 01:56:01 am by mkbrown69 »

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2014, 10:05:43 am »
Thanks for the expert help guys. My 10.04 installation is showing "Installed: 4.1-2ubuntu3.4" which matches the candidate, so looks like I'm good.

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Re: Shellshock vulnerability - do we need to do anything?
« Reply #10 on: October 03, 2014, 11:22:07 am »
Thank you Mike, that worked brilliantly! All my machines updated
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