bash upstream encodes the patchlevel into the version number, while
patches and security fixes in Ubuntu are applied on top of the upstream
version. That's expected behavior.
** Changed in: bash (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Won't Fix
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1969856
Title:
bash --version does not correspond to package name
Status in bash package in Ubuntu:
Won't Fix
Bug description:
While investigating a potentially compromised system, I ran `bash
--version` and got the following:
`GNU bash, version 4.4.20(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)`
Disquieting, given that I had just installed a package named
`bash_4.4.18-2ubuntu1.3_amd64.deb`. I downloaded the `.deb` archive
and, upon extracting it, checked its hash (SHA256) against the
instance on my path. They were the same
(`15d4469eb3da716fefcc0c395a5b1d1657ad0555ec3ae623e727bb0dfcee19cf`)--indicating,
presumably, that I was running whatever version was in the `.deb` I'd
just downloaded.
Why is the version reported by the binary different from the version
used to denote the package?
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