Advisories » MGASA-2022-0289

Updated apache-mod_wsgi packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 20 Aug 2022
Modification date: 20 Aug 2022
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2022-2255

Description

It was discovered that mod-wsgi did not correctly remove the X-Client-IP
header when processing requests from untrusted proxies. A remote attacker
could use this issue to pass the header to WSGI applications, contrary to
expectations (CVE-2022-2255).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30711
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5551-1
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-2255

SRPMS

8/core

• apache-mod_wsgi-4.6.8-4.1.mga8