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From:	Andy <AndyMHancock AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:	How vulnerable are bash users to shellshock bug?
Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2014 02:48:17 +0000 (UTC)
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According to http://www.vox.com/2014/9/25/6843949/the-bash-bug-explained,
shellshock is exploited when someone submits commands in place of parameter
data to a server, which then tries to shove the info into an environment
variable by a bash invocation.  

I (and I suspect many people) only use bash as a command line user
interface.  I don't run any services from the cygwin installation, and I
don't invoke any cygwin commands from Windows services (I know very little
about Windows services).  Would it be correct to say that the vulnerability
doesn't exist in such a scenario?  I can update some cygwin installations,
but some I cannot (and in those cases, cygwin is installed under
non-administrator accounts).


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