Patching Bash “shellshock” on Apple Mac OS X 10.9.5

Given the recent bash vulnerability disclosure[1]most linux distributions havereleased patches. Unfortunately Apple still expected users to compiletheir patches into bash. If you were using Homebrew or Macport you werein better standing and simply had to create symlinks to the patchedexecutables. I’ve documented the steps I had to take on my Macdesktop. Compile mkdir bash cd bash/ wget http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/bash/bash-92.tar.gz tar zxvf bash-92.tar.gz cd bash-92 cd bash-3.2/ curl https://ftp.

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