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Critical 1 exploited CVE USN-2362-1 1 CVE

bash vulnerability

Published Sep 24, 2014 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Summary

Stephane Chazelas discovered that Bash incorrectly handled trailing code in
function definitions. An attacker could use this issue to bypass
environment restrictions, such as SSH forced command environments.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS bash 4.3-7ubuntu1.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2014-6271 Exploited Public exploit Scanner template EPSS 100%

    GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, whic…

    KEV Jan 28, 2022

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-6271