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From: "René Berber" <r.berber@computer.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: ShellShock and Latest Version Problem
Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 20:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m0pls8$166$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <543050CF.1040306@bellsouth.net>

On 10/4/2014 2:55 PM, Dennis Putnam wrote:

> According to the cygwin web site the latest version that contains
> the shellshock patch is 1.7.32. I ran setup-x86_64.exe to get the
> latest patches but I wind up with version 1.7.16 and nothing later
> is found. My cygwin test indicates it is still vulnerable. How do I
> get 1.7.32 if not through setup? TIA.

Shellshock is related to the bash version, not the Cygwin version.

If you updated Cygwin and think you still have an older version (of
Cygwin), that probably means that you didn't stop all processes that
use the Cygwin dll.

Updating Bash doesn't affect, or depend, on the Cygwin dll.
-- 
René Berber


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  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-04 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-04 19:55 Dennis Putnam
2014-10-04 20:38 ` René Berber [this message]
2014-10-04 21:38   ` Dennis Putnam
2014-10-04 22:56     ` René Berber
2014-10-05  0:02       ` Tim Prince
2014-10-05 13:30       ` Dennis Putnam
2014-10-05 13:41         ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-10-05 13:46           ` Dennis Putnam
2014-10-05 13:48             ` Yaakov Selkowitz
2014-10-05 15:08               ` Dennis Putnam

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