Sometimes elements of the parent environment need to be passed through

Shouldn't this line avoid all potential Shellshock exploits?

s/^\(\) {.*// for values %ENV

Cheers Rolf

(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :)

BTW: Couldn't fully test cause my Perl doesn't seem to be exploitable! (?)

edit

erased code example 10 mins after posting ...

update

never mind, my Ubuntu system runs dash which isn't vulnerable :) 

perl -e 'print ` ls -l /proc/\$\$/exe `'
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lanx lanx 0 2014-09-27 12:13 /proc/25970/exe -> /bin/dash

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In reply to Re: Taint and Shellshock by LanX
in thread Taint and Shellshock by kennethk

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