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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 ">=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>
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