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by jchw 2537 days ago
This attack presents a way to reuse a sudo ticket over tmux. If you aren’t in the same TTY as your malicious code there should be no way to reuse a sudo ticket.

The memory modification one sounds truly not possible. In Windows it is possible via OpenProcess and WriteProcessMemory to modify other process memory under some circumstances, but I do not think the same thing is generally possible under Linux (because in most distros ptrace has been mostly locked down for a few years now)