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47 lines
1.6 KiB
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
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<glsa id="201612-49">
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<title>mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation</title>
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<synopsis>A vulnerability in mod_wsgi could lead to privilege escalation.</synopsis>
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<product type="ebuild">mod_wsgi</product>
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<announced>2016-12-30</announced>
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<revised count="1">2016-12-30</revised>
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<bug>536270</bug>
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<access>local, remote</access>
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<affected>
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<package name="www-apache/mod_wsgi" auto="yes" arch="*">
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<unaffected range="ge">4.3.0</unaffected>
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<vulnerable range="lt">4.3.0</vulnerable>
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</package>
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</affected>
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<background>
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<p>mod_wsgi is an Apache2 module for running Python WSGI applications.</p>
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</background>
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<description>
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<p>mod_wsgi, when creating a daemon process group, does not properly handle
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dropping group privileges.
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</p>
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</description>
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<impact type="normal">
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<p>Context-dependent attackers could escalate privileges due to the
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improper handling of group privileges.
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</p>
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</impact>
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<workaround>
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<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
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</workaround>
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<resolution>
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<p>All mod_wsgi users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
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<code>
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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apache/mod_wsgi-4.3.0"
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</code>
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</resolution>
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<references>
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<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2014-8583">CVE-2014-8583</uri>
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</references>
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<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2016-11-23T00:29:47Z">whissi</metadata>
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<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2016-12-30T00:41:42Z">b-man</metadata>
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</glsa>
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