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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201412-21">
<title>mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>Two vulnerabilities have been found in mod_wsgi, the worst of which
could result in local privilege escalation.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">mod_wsgi</product>
<announced>2014-12-13</announced>
<revised count="1">2014-12-13</revised>
<bug>510938</bug>
<access>local, remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="www-apache/mod_wsgi" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">3.5</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">3.5</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>mod_wsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications.</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>Two vulnerabilities have been found in mod_wsgi:</p>
<ul>
<li>Error codes returned by setuid are not properly handled
(CVE-2014-0240)
</li>
<li>A memory leak exists via the “Content-Type” header
(CVE-2014-0242)
</li>
</ul>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>A local attacker may be able to gain escalated privileges. Furthermore,
a remote attacker may be able to obtain sensitive information.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All mod_wsgi users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apache/mod_wsgi-3.5"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0240">CVE-2014-0240</uri>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-0242">CVE-2014-0242</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2014-06-14T02:20:25Z">
BlueKnight
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2014-12-13T18:03:56Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>
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