CVE-2014-8583 Information

Description

mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 for Apache when creating a daemon process group does not properly handle when group privileges cannot be dropped which might allow attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

Reference

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-12/msg00036.html http://modwsgi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/release-notes/version-4.2.4.html http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:253 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/06/19/7 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/04/8 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68111 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2431-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1111034 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-49