If you're on Ubuntu, you can simply run an update to patch the bug:<p><pre><code> sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
</code></pre>
Thanks Ubuntu!
For those interested, here is a direct link HN user josh-rale had posted in the other popular thread:<p><a href="http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-2014-0160.html" rel="nofollow">http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2014/CVE-20...</a>