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 incorrect 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.

mod-wsgi on Debian Linux

This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.

• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2937.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25