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CVE-2012-0056 medium priority: Ubuntu including 25 source packages (linux, linux-aws, …), 286 status rows across 16 suites (hardy, lucid, maverick, natty, oneiric, precise, quantal, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 196, not-affected 55, released 28, ignored 7.
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.