Updating Email Encryption Gateway (TMEEG) 5.5 offline to prevent the Shellshock Vulnerability [CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169]

- Updated:
- 24 Nov 2016
- Product/Version:
- Email Encryption Gateway 5.5
- Platform:
- VMware vSphere 5.1
- VMware vSphere 5.5

Summary

This article tells you how you can update TMEEG 5.5 in Offline Mode as a preventive measure against the Shellshock Vulnerability (Bash Bug).

Details

TMEEG 5.5 uses Centos 5.2. The correct RPM for Centos 5.2, which can also be used to address the Shellshock Vulnerability, is bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4.i386.rpm.

You can retrieve the bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4.i386.rpm package from the following Centos links:

To update TMEEG using the package:

Download the bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4.i386.rpm package.
Connect to TMEEG via WinSCP using your root credentials.
Save bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4.i386.rpm in the /tmp or /temp folders.
Log on to the #bash of your TMEEG 5.5 using your root credentials.
Execute the following command:
rpm -Uvh bash-3.2-33.el5_11.4.i386.rpm
Reboot TMEEG after the update.

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Category:

Configure; Troubleshoot; Upgrade; Update

Solution Id:

1105888

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