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EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : mod_wsgi (EulerOS-SA-2019-2367)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 131859

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the mod_wsgi package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - 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.(CVE-2014-8583)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected mod_wsgi package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?945eafb7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 131859

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2019-2367.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Published: 12/10/2019

Updated: 4/4/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8583

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:mod_wsgi, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8583

BID: 68111