CVE-2014-7187

An off-by-one error was discovered in the way Bash was handling deeply nested flow control constructs. Depending on the layout of the .bss segment, this could allow arbitrary execution of code that would not otherwise be executed by Bash.

Red Hat Product Security does not consider this bug to have any security impact on the bash packages shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux. A fix for this issue was applied as a hardening in RHSA-2014:1306, RHSA-2014:1311, and RHSA-2014:1312.

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