[CentOS] Critical update for bash released today.

lhecking at users.sourceforge.net lhecking at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Sep 26 12:12:52 UTC 2014


> If you absolutely must run an EL4 workload, please do not do it on
> CentOS-4 and instead pay for and upgrade to RHEL-4 ELS as described in
> the above link from February 2012.  CentOS-4 is unsafe .. don't use it
> .. don't do it .. please.

 Or, use the source, Luke. There are official patches for 3.x and 4.x.

 The patched code is so old that even 4.2 patch 48 applies cleanly(*) to
 bash-2.05b, which is RHEL3 territory.

 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/

 * minus the patchlevel.h bit




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