Thread: Huge bash exploit CVE-2014-6271
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Old 29-09-2014, 17:14   #22
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Re: Huge bash exploit CVE-2014-6271
Well, I don't pay for RedHat, plus the upstream fixes from RedHat make it into CentOS (which is completely free) as well.

That said I personally (when I used to write software anyway) made a habit of always testing each step or function of everything I wrote with broken or invalid data just to make sure it was fully robust, and also making sure every possible exception thrown gave some sort of human-readable error message. I'm guessing that's also what the security researchers discovering these holes are doing.
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