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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100
committerV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-10-09 18:53:29 +0100
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="201612-49">
+ <title>mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation</title>
+ <synopsis>A vulnerability in mod_wsgi could lead to privilege escalation.</synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">mod_wsgi</product>
+ <announced>2016-12-30</announced>
+ <revised>2016-12-30: 1</revised>
+ <bug>536270</bug>
+ <access>local, remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="www-apache/mod_wsgi" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">4.3.0</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">4.3.0</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>mod_wsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications.</p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>mod_wsgi, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle
+ dropping group privileges.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>Context-dependent attackers could escalate privileges due to the
+ improper handling of group privileges.
+ </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-4.3.0"
+ </code>
+
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8583">CVE-2014-8583</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-23T00:29:47Z">whissi</metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-30T00:41:42Z">b-man</metadata>
+</glsa>