[olug] Bash Bug Info

[jregier at cox.net]

> 
> See, I'm starting to come up with a way of upgrading the hundreds of 
> servers I deal with that run a non-standard distro.  There will be no 
> upstream fix, so I gotta roll my own (and distribute it on my own).
> 
> So, like any sane person, I go looking for the sources and such... 
> obviously from the original source (GNU).
> 
> I see a nice tarball from Feb.  And then 25 paches in the patches 
> directory.  And looking at the patch sources, I probably need to apply 
> all of them in order.  Talk about irritating.
> 
> *sigh*.
> 
> onward! (with popcorn, if anyone gets the reference).
> 
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You can do something like this:

for i in $(seq -f "%03g" 1 52); do 
  wget -nv http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bash/bash-3.1-patches/bash31-$i
  patch -p0 < bash31-$i
done

There is a fuller version here: https://gist.github.com/href/54859127c183f67f947f
Adapt to your particular distro needs.

It does not look like the latest fix is fully backported yet, so check that first.



Jesse Regier