Here’s how to patch Ubuntu 8.04 or anything where you have to build bash from source (opens in new tab)

UPDATED: I have updated the post to include the post from Just a quick post to help those who might be running older/unsupported distributions of linux, mainly Ubuntu 8.04 who need to patch their version of bash due to the recent exploit here: I found this post and can confirm it works: Here are the steps(make a backup of /bin/bash just in case): #assume that your sources are in /src cd /src wget #download all patches for i in $(seq -f "%03g" 1 28); do wget done tar zxvf bash-4.3.tar.gz cd ba...