Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2015-180 - apache-mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 contained an off-by-one error in applying a limit to the number of supplementary groups allowed for a daemon process group. The result could be that if more groups than the operating system allowed were specified to the option supplementary-groups, then memory corruption or a process crash could occur. It was discovered that mod_wsgi incorrectly handled errors when setting up the working directory and group access rights. A malicious application could possibly use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2015:180
http://www.mandriva.com/en/support/security/
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Package : apache-mod_wsgi
Date : March 30, 2015
Affected: Business Server 2.0
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Problem Description:
Updated apache-mod_wsgi package fixes security vulnerabilities:
apache-mod_wsgi before 4.2.4 contained an off-by-one error in
applying a limit to the number of supplementary groups allowed for
a daemon process group. The result could be that if more groups
than the operating system allowed were specified to the option
supplementary-groups, then memory corruption or a process crash
could occur.
It was discovered that mod_wsgi incorrectly handled errors when
setting up the working directory and group access rights. A malicious
application could possibly use this issue to cause a local privilege
escalation when using daemon mode (CVE-2014-8583).
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References:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8583
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0323.html
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0513.html
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Business Server 2/X86_64:
fe28e7f7ec4bcd1b1fc01bb8239161f6 mbs2/x86_64/apache-mod_wsgi-3.5-1.mbs2.x86_64.rpm
9ffc188c8b7268e5e6bf4a06f00b7ed4 mbs2/SRPMS/apache-mod_wsgi-3.5-1.mbs2.src.rpm
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
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