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WD Releases My Cloud OS 1.5 - Fixes Shellshock Vulnerability

PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2014 12:42 pm
by Ian
Western Digital has released My Cloud OS 1.5 for their My Cloud series of NAS devices. Along with a number of new fixes and features, this firmware update resolves the Shellshock vulnerability.

 Resolved issue of Shellshock (CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278,
CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, CVE-2014-7187) bash security vulnerability.
 Supports 32K hybrid page sizes for enhanced device read and write performance.
 Improved device dashboard user interface response time.
 Supports disabling of media transcoding by turning off Cloud Access.
 Supports creation of a share folder when creating user via ‘Getting Started’ or adding
user through ‘Users’ page.
 Supports media file name search in WD My Cloud™mobile app.
 Supports media view filtering in WD My Cloud mobile app.
 Supports USB Backup from attached USB ports.
 Resolved issue of large data transfer interruption when copying files between the WD My
Cloud and an attached USB drive.
 Resolved issue of FTP download user interface only showing name of the folder instead
of full folder path.
 Resolved problems with file transfer performance via MTP protocol.
 Resolved issue of not able to change USB share name.
 Resolved FTP download function to support file name that contains special characters.
 Resolved issue of not joining the domain after a reboot when setup with Link
Aggregation to 802.3ad


The updates can be downloaded here:

http://support.wdc.com/product/download ... =9&lang=en