by Chris Brook October 1, 2014
Much like Heartbleed triggered vendors to issue out of band patches to remedy vulnerabilities that popped up earlier this year, Shellshock, the Bash vulnerability, has forced vendors’ hands in a similar fashion.
Virtualization firm VMware issued a progress report on fixes for four different types of products as they relate to the bug on Monday.
For the most part the company still has its hands full.
According to yesterday’s security advisory, it’s currently in the middle of developing a patch for all but one of 38 different virtual appliance products, all of which run on Linux and are shipped with an affected version of Bash.
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