For those concerned about the recent announcement of the bash vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) in regards to StarMiner, this can be addressed by the following which would be executed on the command line as root (either SSH into StarMiner or via the direct console):
Please do note, this is a partial patch or fix at this time since most Linux distributions have not implemented a full patch just yet (including the maintainers of bash itself as of earlier this afternoon, 25 September 2014, US Mountain Time). So plan on running the above again early next week as well to address this CVE.
Any thoughts or concerns are welcomed to be posted here on the forums accordingly.
Happy and profitable mining to all!
Code:
aptitude clean;aptitude autoclean;aptitude update;aptitude install bash
Please do note, this is a partial patch or fix at this time since most Linux distributions have not implemented a full patch just yet (including the maintainers of bash itself as of earlier this afternoon, 25 September 2014, US Mountain Time). So plan on running the above again early next week as well to address this CVE.
Any thoughts or concerns are welcomed to be posted here on the forums accordingly.
Happy and profitable mining to all!