CVE-2012-0056

Name	CVE-2012-0056
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux-2.6	source	lenny	(not affected)
linux-2.6	source	squeeze	(not affected)
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	3.2.1-2

Notes

[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (introduced in 2.6.39)
[lenny] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (introduced in 2.6.39)
fix is http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=e268337dfe26dfc7efd422a804dbb27977a3cccc (queued for 3.3)