CVE-2014-0240 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-3.5.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0789.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59551 http://secunia.com/advisories/60094 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/21/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67532