Bad Bash Bug

There's a bug in Linux. I read the story on the BBC this morning. Doing a bit of Googling, I came across a page at Red Hat which confirmed my computer (running Debian Testing) was vulnerable.

 By evening Debian Testing had a patch:

Now I seem to be safe:

However, the real issue here does not seem to be Linux desktops:

...this bash bug has been around for a long, long time. That means there are lots of old devices on the network vulnerable to this bug. The number of systems needing to be patched, but which won't be is [large].

Robert Graham, on tomsguide.com.