USN-2222-1

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USN-2222-1

Summary: mod-wsgi vulnerabilities

Details: Róbert Kisteleki discovered mod_wsgi incorrectly checked setuid return values. A malicious application could use this issue to cause a local privilege escalation when using daemon mode. (CVE-2014-0240) Buck Golemon discovered that mod_wsgi used memory that had been freed. A remote attacker could use this issue to read process memory via the Content-Type response header. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-0242)

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2222-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0240, https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-0242