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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 "&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>