PublicDateAtUSN: 2014-05-23
Candidate: CVE-2014-0240
PublicDate: 2014-05-27 14:55:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0240
 http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2014/05/security-release-for-modwsgi-version-35.html
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2222-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
 mdeslaur> from upstream: The issue is believed to affect Linux systems
 mdeslaur> running kernel versions >= 2.6.0 and < 3.1.0.
Bugs:
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mod-wsgi/+bug/1322338
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=748910
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Róbert Kisteleki
Assigned-to:
CVSS: 

Patches_mod-wsgi:
 upstream: https://github.com/GrahamDumpleton/mod_wsgi/commit/d9d5fea585b23991f76532a9b07de7fcd3b649f4
upstream_mod-wsgi: released (3.5-1)
lucid_mod-wsgi: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise_mod-wsgi: released (3.3-4ubuntu0.1)
saucy_mod-wsgi: released (3.4-4ubuntu2.1.13.10.1)
trusty_mod-wsgi: released (3.4-4ubuntu2.1.14.04.1)
trusty/esm_mod-wsgi: released (3.4-4ubuntu2.1.14.04.1)
devel_mod-wsgi: released (3.5-1)