| Revision Date: | 2012-08-27 | Version: | 634 |
| Title: | RHSA-2012:1206: python-paste-script security update (Moderate) |
| Description: | Python Paste provides middleware for building and running Python web applications. The python-paste-script package includes paster, a tool for working with and running Python Paste applications.
It was discovered that paster did not drop supplementary group privileges when started by the root user. Running "paster serve" as root to start a Python web application that will run as a non-root user and group resulted in that application running with root group privileges. This could possibly allow a remote attacker to gain access to files that should not be accessible to the application. (CVE-2012-0878)
All paster users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue. All running paster instances configured to drop privileges must be restarted for this update to take effect.
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2012-0878
CVE-2012-0878
RHSA-2012:1206
RHSA-2012:1206-01
RHSA-2012:1206-01
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
AND python-paste-script is earlier than 0:1.7.3-5.el6_3
AND python-paste-script is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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