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How to patch RedHat 5 for Shellshock without subscription

Hi All,
I need to patch some server for the ShellShock exploit but do not have the Subscription to pull it down direct. The servers are going EOL in December and i do not want to have to purchase the Subscription for 2 months, is there a way around this?

I have seen:
http://icewalkerz.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/how-to-use-centos-repos-in-rhel-5.html
but when i run "yum-rhn-plugin" i get Failed on Dependencies

i can not find any iso downloads to install from CDrom, i might just be special here so anything you could offer would be appreciated

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Licencing: http://www.redhat.com/es/about/licenses (new as of 2013... it runs with subscription only....)

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Thanks for all the support options Guys, RH of course never told me i could do any of the above but were happy to offer me subscription....

What i completed in the end was as follows:

- Make an "/etc/yum.repos.d/centos.repo" file. Content's should look like this:

[CentOS_base]
name=CentOS-Base
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=$basearch&repo=os
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[CentOS_updates]
name=CentOS-Updates
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=$basearch&repo=updates
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
[CentOSplus]
name=CentOS-Plus
mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=6&arch=$basearch&repo=centosplus
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6

- Disable RHN yum plugin, edit "/etc/yum/pluginconf.d/rhnplugin.conf"
- Change "enabled=1" to "enabled=0"

Run these commands:
yum clean all
yum update bash

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