Security Advisory

CVE-2012-0056

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-01-27 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 18:09:17
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The mem_write function in the Linux kernel before 3.2.2, when ASLR is disabled, does not properly check permissions when writing to /proc/<pid>/mem, which allows local users to gain privileges by modifying process memory, as demonstrated by Mempodipper.