Bash Vulnerability Leads to Shellshock: What it is, How it Affects You

A serious vulnerability has been found in the Bash command shell, which is commonly used by most Linux distributions. This vulnerability—designated as CVE-2014-7169—allows an attacker to run commands on an affected system. In short, this allows for remote code execution on servers that run these Linux distributions. What’s the bug (vulnerability)? The most popular shell on…