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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/memes@lemmy.ml
 

Not discrediting Open Source Software, but nothing is 100% safe.

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[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

My very obvious rebuttal: Shellshock was introduced into bash in 1989, and found in 2014. It was incredibly trivial to exploit and if you had shell, you had root perms, which is insane.

env x='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' bash -c "echo this is a test"