Also, please, no one ever run any command along the line of "curl foo | bash" -- a malicious web server could easily give some friendly-looking content to a web browser but malware payload to curl.
Download the script, read the script, validate published signatures, and only then execute the script directly if you still trust it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to bash in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1378071 Title: bash crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() Status in “bash” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: Tried to run vulnerability tester for ShellShock: curl https://shellshocker.net/shellshock_test.sh | bash ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: bash 4.3-10ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-20.27-generic 3.16.3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-20-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Oct 6 15:20:52 2014 ExecutablePath: /bin/bash InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-03 (3 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn" - Alpha amd64 (20140923) ProcCmdline: bash -c f()\ {\ x()\ {\ _;};\ x()\ {\ _;}\ <<a;\ } ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SegvAnalysis: Segfault happened at: 0x7fa67ca5c564 <strlen+148>: pcmpeqb (%rax),%xmm8 PC (0x7fa67ca5c564) ok source "(%rax)" (0xdfdfdfdfdfdfdfc0) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)! destination "%xmm8" ok SegvReason: reading unknown VMA Signal: 11 SourcePackage: bash StacktraceTop: strlen () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strlen.S:137 copy_redirect () copy_redirects () copy_command () copy_function_def_contents () Title: bash crashed with SIGSEGV in strlen() UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bash/+bug/1378071/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp