Shellshock bash patches and version differences.

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Hi All,

Checking the bash --version before and after installing the patch, I have found the versioning is different to what I would expect.

user@testing:~> which bash
/bin/bash
user@testing:~>/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
user@testing:~> rpm -qa | grep bash
bash-3.1-24.34.1

Is this because SuSE have patched the installed version but incremented the RPM versioning?

It seems the patch is good as both tests fail but I am curious to the versioning conflict.

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[QUOTE=cmsjamesh;24007]Hi All,

Checking the bash --version before and after installing the patch, I have found the versioning is different to what I would expect.

user@testing:~> which bash
/bin/bash
user@testing:~>/bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 3.1.17(1)-release (x86_64-suse-linux)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
user@testing:~> rpm -qa | grep bash
bash-3.1-24.34.1

Is this because SuSE have patched the installed version but incremented the RPM versioning?

It seems the patch is good as both tests fail but I am curious to the versioning conflict.[/QUOTE]
Hi
Yes, generally the release versions don’t change and fixes are backported. You need to look at the change log;

rpm -qa --changelog| grep bash