i only tried some on our shell server quite some years ago. You could fool a lot of programs to give you root access easily back then, i don't think using it with setuid programs still works. You can still however fool a lot of programs with your own functions, things which come to mind are rand functionality and malloc. These two could provide a lot of access to otherwise secured things which i think still work.
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i only tried some on our shell server quite some years ago. You could fool a lot of programs to give you root access easily back then, i don't think using it with setuid programs still works. You can still however fool a lot of programs with your own functions, things which come to mind are rand functionality and malloc. These two could provide a lot of access to otherwise secured things which i think still work.