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[Python-Dev] Critical bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 may affect Python on *n*x and OSX

[Python-Dev] Critical bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 may affect Python on *n*x and OSX [Python-Dev] Critical bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 may affect Python on *n*x and OSXAntoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Sep 26 13:16:05 CEST 2014 
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 01:10:53 -0700
Hasan Diwan <hasan.diwan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Matěj,
> 
> On 26 September 2014 00:28, Matěj Cepl <mcepl at cepl.eu> wrote:
> 
> > Where does your faith that other /bin/sh implementations (dash,
> > busybox, etc.) are less buggy comes from?
> 
> 
> The fact that they are simpler, in terms of lines of code. It's no
> guarantee, but the less a given piece of code does, the less bugs it will
> have. -- H

And that they have less "features" (which is certainly correlated to
their simplicity). IIUC, the misimplemented feature leading to this
vulnerability is a bash-ism.

Regards

Antoine.
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