On Thu, 25 Sep 2014, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:

Recent discussions seem to lead to a general security concern
with the crippled bash parser, so there nearly certainly will
be more and more security issues in the next days to come up.
I think the better alternative is to provide 'dash' and symlink
bash to dash instead, as dash much cleaner, faster, and POSIX -
compliant. Although, as it has not been widely used as bash
yet, could have its own bugs not yet discovered....

Unfortunately, 'dash' is not completely compatible with scripts written for 'bash'. It is not clear to my why people write shell scripts targeting bash, but it seems to happen often.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/

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