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Setuid bit seems to have no effect on bash
I was experimenting with the security of my system and noticed something strange: setting the setuid bit on a copy of bash located at /usr/bin/bash-test seemed to have no effect. When I ran an ...
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setuid programs don't seem to run setuid in TinyCore Linux
I want to demonstrate the vulnerability of setuid programs using the TinyCore Linux live cd. That is, I craft a special program, with special permissions, so that it runs as the owner of the file ...
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How to replace setuid with file-system capabilities
Inspired by this question here is the follow-up:
As some of you may know setuid-binaries are dangerous, since some exploits use these to escalate their rights up to root.
Now it seems that there has ...
