PT-2014-3551

CVE-2014-0240

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Published

2014-05-23

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Updated

2017-12-21

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.2
Medium
MetricsAV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions mod wsgi versions prior to 3.5
Description The issue arises when the mod wsgi module for Apache is run in daemon mode on certain Linux kernels. It fails to properly handle error codes returned by setuid, allowing local users to gain privileges through vectors related to the number of running processes.
Recommendations For mod wsgi versions prior to 3.5, update to version 3.5 or later to resolve the issue.
Exploitability
Fix
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
Related identifiers
ALT-PU-2016-1386
CESA-2014_0788
CESA-2014_1091
DSA-2937-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10457-1
RHSA-2014:0788
RHSA-2014_0788
RHSA-2014:0789
RHSA-2014:1091
RHSA-2014_1091
SUSE-RU-2015:0611-1
USN-2222-1
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