Merdeka.com - If you are a user of the Linux operating system, perhaps it is time to be alert. Therefore, the security team of the blog Red Hat said it has managed to find a bug that claimed far more dangerous than the virus Heartbleed.
Bug was first discovered by Stephane Chazelas from the RedHat team appeared in the utility command "Bash" is the plural version 4.3 for Linux and Unix. The bug, named "Bug Bash" tau "shellshock" was estimated to have infected websites, servers, PCs, and even Apple's Mac OS X with a number that can not be counted again, The Register (24/09).
Bug Bash itself predicted to appear in the Linux operating system in a period of time long enough. Worse, hackers can exploit this bug to execute code system crack shortly after a variables in Bash command was successfully executed.
Unfortunately, burglary system can create an entry point for further hacking process can be much more dangerous. In fact, the system has been compromised can be 'published' by spreading code piercing through a network that is quite easy to do.
As reported by The Verge (9.24), experts from Errata Security, Robert David Graham, comparing the level of danger of the virus Heartbleed Bug Bash. He revealed when very difficult to be able to know all of the software out there that are prone to attacks Bug Bash, such as when the first boom Hearbleed.
The good news, derivative operating system OS Debian and Ubuntu that uses utility Dash is not threatened at all by the presence of this bug.
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