CVE-2010-4170

This Metasploit module exploits a privilege escalation vulnerability in SystemTap's `staprun` executable (CVE-2010-4170) by leveraging the `MODPROBE_OPTIONS` environment variable to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

This Metasploit module exploits CVE-2010-4170, a privilege escalation vulnerability in SystemTap's `staprun` executable. It leverages the `MODPROBE_OPTIONS` environment variable to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges by injecting a malicious configuration file.

This exploit leverages a vulnerability in the Linux kernel's handling of the MODPROBE_OPTIONS environment variable to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges. It creates a malicious configuration file to spawn a shell when the 'uprobes' module is loaded via staprun.