News, of significant flaws in the latest Linux Kernel, of which, lead to an ordinary user privilege escalation of rather enormous implications, the holy grail of operating system attacks: Root. The vulnerability, identified in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Vulnerability Database as CVE-2012-0056, specifically is a kernel flaw which permits unfettered access to the “/proc//mem” file. Torvalds patch was committed to the official Linux kernel repository 2012/01/17, but not in time to beat the distribution of the appearance on-line of exploit code. Oops.
