Apple macOS 10.12 - 'task_t' Local Privilege Escalation

Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=837 TL;DR you cannot hold or use a task struct pointer and expect the euid of that task to stay the same. Many many places in the kernel do this and there are a great many very exploitable bugs as a result. taskt is just a typedef...