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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 count="1">2016-12-30</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 "&gt;=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>