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<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 "&gt;=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>
