Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2014-137 - Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered and corrected in apache-mod_wsgi. It was found that mod_wsgi did not properly drop privileges if the call to setuid failed. If mod_wsgi was set up to allow unprivileged users to run WSGI applications, a local user able to run a WSGI application could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges on the system. It was discovered that mod_wsgi could leak memory of a hosted web application via the Content-Type header. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to disclose limited portions of the web application's memory. The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2014:137
https://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : apache-mod_wsgi
Date : July 11, 2014
Affected: Business Server 1.0
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Problem Description:
Multiple vulnerabilities has been discovered and corrected in
apache-mod_wsgi:
It was found that mod_wsgi did not properly drop privileges if
the call to setuid\(\) failed. If mod_wsgi was set up to allow
unprivileged users to run WSGI applications, a local user able to
run a WSGI application could possibly use this flaw to escalate their
privileges on the system (CVE-2014-0240).
It was discovered that mod_wsgi could leak memory of a hosted web
application via the Content-Type header. A remote attacker could
possibly use this flaw to disclose limited portions of the web
application's memory (CVE-2014-0242).
The updated packages have been patched to correct these issues.
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References:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0240
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0242
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0788.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 1/X86_64:
b0dab0032790662dce72017097844afb mbs1/x86_64/apache-mod_wsgi-3.3-7.1.mbs1.x86_64.rpm
8f2adb300f9170b623cf4be749a31f60 mbs1/SRPMS/apache-mod_wsgi-3.3-7.1.mbs1.src.rpm
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