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11 years ago

How to patch vulnerability of bash in Altera Cygwin (Shellshock bug)

cygwin (https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2014-10/msg00004.html) is included in several Altera tooling. It is a Unix-like environment within Windows. Therefore I post this question in "Other Oper...
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11 years ago

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But I wouldn't worry about it on your development system, most things that can set environment variables can just execute the relevant command instead.

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Besides development systems we have also installed these Altera tools (with Cygwin) on build servers. Should we patch them? If so, how should we do that without breaking backwards compatibility?