Reply to post: Re: And I thought that I would never see a bit of bash scripting on a mainstream site

Third patch brings more admin Shellshock for the battered and Bashed

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Re: And I thought that I would never see a bit of bash scripting on a mainstream site

"For that to work, you need to have control of the DHCP server."

It's easy to plug in one that responds fastest - or set one up on WiFi

"If you have control of the DHCP server, then all the clients are fucked, regardless of OS."

Not if they run say Windows - or anything that doesn't rely on an exploitable version of BASH. You might be able to do things to the traffic - but you won't automatically own the host!

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