Debian Security Advisory

DSA-2937-1 mod-wsgi -- security update

Date Reported:
27 May 2014
Affected Packages:
mod-wsgi
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2014-0240, CVE-2014-0242.
More information:

Two security issues have been found in the Python WSGI adapter module for Apache:

  • CVE-2014-0240

    Robert Kisteleki discovered a potential privilege escalation in daemon mode. This is not exploitable with the kernel used in Debian 7.0/wheezy.

  • CVE-2014-0242

    Buck Golemon discovered that incorrect memory handling could lead to information disclosure when processing Content-Type headers.

For the oldstable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.3-2+deb6u1.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed in version 3.3-4+deb7u1.

For the testing distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 3.5-1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 3.5-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mod-wsgi packages.