A new vulnerability (CVE-2012-0056) that affects almost 650 different builds of the Linux kernel builds allows effortless privilege escalation to root. It works by forking child processes to trick the self_exec_id check on /proc/pid/mem access, allowing the code to modify its own SUID and gain root.
CVE-2012-0056 $ ./mempodipper
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= Mempodipper =
= by zx2c4 =
= Jan 21, 2012 =
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