Re: CVE-2016-0634 -- bash prompt expanding $HOSTNAME

[Seth Arnold <seth.arnold () canonical com>]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:06:57PM +0100, John Haxby wrote:
> > > > A little while ago, one of our users discovered that by setting the
> > > > hostname to $(something unpleasant), bash would run "something
> > > > unpleasant" when it expanded \h in the prompt string.
> >
> > This issue has been public since October, 2015 in Ubuntu's bug tracking
> > system.
>
> Yes, the message was more to let people know that CVE-2016-0634  had
> been assigned for this issue.   Do you have a link to the Ubuntu issue
> and a different CVE number?

Hello John; we did not assign a CVE number for this issue.

Bernd Dietzel reported it at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1507025

Thanks

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