Gentoo Linux: CVE-2014-8583: mod_wsgi: Privilege escalation
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(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
12/16/2014
07/25/2018
10/30/2017
10/30/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-www-apache-mod_wsgi
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