A mod-wsgi security update has been released for Debian
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2937-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff
May 27, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mod-wsgi
CVE ID : CVE-2014-0240 CVE-2014-0242
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 incorect 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.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: http://www.debian.org/security/