title: The bash vulnerability CVE-2014-6271 . Can it affect my CGI perl scripts? How to understand this?
body: <p>Yesterday the problem CVE-2014-6271 was reported which is the BASH Shellshock vulnerability.
  I am trying to understand if it can affect my server via my Perl CGI scripts. </p>
  
  <p>Can my code be affected in a malicious way - what would my code need to do to be affected? What should I check to verify this?</p>