CVE-2014-0240
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-05-27 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 09:05
Severity ?
Summary
The mod_wsgi module before 3.5 for Apache, when daemon mode is enabled, does not properly handle error codes returned by setuid when run on certain Linux kernels, which allows local users to gain privileges via vectors related to the number of running processes.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/59551
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/60094
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/21/1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67532
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