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Re: Bash idiocy

On 2020-10-02 15:07, Dianne Skoll wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Hoo boy.  If your shell is Bash, try the following two commands:
> 
>     cat /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
> 
>     cat < /dev/tcp/127.0.0.1/22
> 
> If that is not madness, I don't know what is. :(
> 
> Do "man bash" and search in the man page for "/dev/tcp"

Oh yeah, that's a hole in security policy that we've been trying to
devise audit rules for years to track...

> Regards,
> 
> Dianne.

	slainte mhath, RGB

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