{"id":1470,"date":"2014-09-27T14:46:58","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T21:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2026-03-06T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:27:59","slug":"shellshock-new-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/shellshock-new-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Shellshock: New Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/security\/2014\/09\/bug-in-bash-shell-creates-big-security-hole-on-anything-with-nix-in-it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Shellshock<\/a> vulnerability in the Bash shell is a nasty, nasty thing. It could allow for an attacker to remotely execute code on a server, leading to who-knows-what kind of consequences. How rude!<\/p>\n<p>I tested the prefrontal.org server and found that it was indeed vulnerable. I took this as an opportunity to start fresh, and updated to a new version of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.debian.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Debian<\/a> Linux on a new server. Let me know if anything remains broken, but we should be good to go at this point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Shellshock vulnerability in the Bash shell is a nasty, nasty thing. It could allow for an attacker to remotely execute code on a server, leading to who-knows-what kind of consequences. How rude! I tested the prefrontal.org server and found that it was indeed vulnerable. I took this as an opportunity to start fresh, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1473,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prefrontal.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}