At jobs could fail due to a security issue fix in Bash.

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • At jobs could fail due to a security issue fix in Bash.
[root@example ~]# at now
at> ls
at> <EOT>
job 6 at 2014-09-26 12:05

Actual results:

From root@example.com  Fri Sep 26 12:05:38 2014
Return-Path: <root@example.com>
X-Original-To: root
Delivered-To: root@example.com
Subject: Output from your job        6
To: root@example.redhat.com
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:05:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: root@example.redhat.com (root)
Status: R

sh: line 37: syntax error near unexpected token `=\(\)\ {\ \ eval\ \`/usr/bin/modulecmd\ bash\ \$\*\`"
"}'
sh: line 37: `"}; export BASH_FUNC_module()'

& 

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • at older than at-3.1.8-84.el5_11.1
  • bash newer than bash-4.1.2-15.el6_4

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