Medium: mod24_wsgi

Issue Overview:

Failure to handle errors when attempting to drop group privileges
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)

Affected Packages:

mod24_wsgi

Issue Correction:
Run yum update mod24_wsgi to update your system.

New Packages:

i686:  
    mod24_wsgi-python35-3.5-1.25.amzn1.i686  
    mod24_wsgi-python26-3.5-1.25.amzn1.i686  
    mod24_wsgi-python27-3.5-1.25.amzn1.i686  
    mod24_wsgi-python36-3.5-1.25.amzn1.i686  
    mod24_wsgi-debuginfo-3.5-1.25.amzn1.i686  
    mod24_wsgi-python34-3.5-1.25.amzn1.i686  
  
src:  
    mod24_wsgi-3.5-1.25.amzn1.src  
  
x86_64:  
    mod24_wsgi-python35-3.5-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    mod24_wsgi-python36-3.5-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    mod24_wsgi-debuginfo-3.5-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    mod24_wsgi-python26-3.5-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    mod24_wsgi-python27-3.5-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  
    mod24_wsgi-python34-3.5-1.25.amzn1.x86_64  

Additional References

Red Hat: CVE-2014-8583

Mitre: CVE-2014-8583