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by mzs 4279 days ago
"the most recent way to exploit it is to export an environment variable of, say, ls to a bash function."

Even before the redhat patch you would need something to set echo=() { ... but how will an attacker do that when they can only set something like HTTP_USER_AGENT=() { ... ? See how overriding a builtin is not and never was a vulnerability?