Quite a few users have contacted me through my site to inform me that they have no updates available and they are worried about the flaw that has just been announced in BASH – CVE-2014-6271

[alert-note]Post updated to include patch for CVE-2014-7169[/alert-note]

You’re right to be worried, it’s a pretty nasty flaw. But don’t worry we will get you patched!

We can install the update directly from Koji.

To update your BASH version manually please do the following in a terminal.

[alert-note]Please su into root or use sudo[/alert-note]

Installation

yum -y install koji

koji download-build --arch=$(uname -m) bash-4.2.48-2.fc20

yum localinstall bash-4.2.48-2.fc20.$(uname -m).rpm

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