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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

Just ensure that whatever executes the Altera tools doesn't have anything 'nasty' in it's 'environment variables'.

I'd guess the 'environment variables' come straight from the windows ones.

Unless these are set based on information from an untusted remote system (which I doubt) it just doesn't matter.