ELSA-2014-0788 Important: Oracle Linux mod_wsgi security update
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(AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
05/27/2014
07/25/2018
06/26/2014
04/11/2019
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.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_wsgi
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