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The payload (“badfile”), which being properly created with Tasks A, B, and C, enables to obtain “/bin/sh” with a regular user privilege. Even though the stack program is a root-owned set-uid program and return-to-libc attack is successfully launched,  we still won’t be able to obtain “/bin/sh” with a root privilege. Describe the additional tasks other than Tasks A, B, and C to obtain a root shell. Note that you are *NOT* allowed to use “/bin/zsh” instead. 

The following is an entry inside the /etc/passwd file. What is the user ID (numeric) of the user bob? bob:x:2000:3000:SEED,,,:/home/bob:/bin/bash

The tag in a malicious HTML page will generate the HTTP Get request when the page is loaded to the victim’s web browser?

Web servers know whether an HTTP request is cross-site or not.

Suppose the regular user seed (UID 1000) was able to successfully launch Buffer-Overflow-Attack on this root-owned SetUID program simple_stack using the shellcode. However, the user seed wasn’t able to get a root prompt, but a regular prompt. Explain why. 

A key aspect of self-regulation is

What does the facial feedback hypothesis suggest about the relationship between facial expressions and emotions?

As a child of divorced parents, a teenager has always been impulsive and thoughtless. After a near-death experience, they begin considering other people’s feelings and feel remorse for their earlier actions. In the context of Freud’s psychoanalytic theory, the teen is most likely experiencing a strengthening of their

With regard to personality assessment techniques, social desirability

According to Carl Rogers, which of the following can occur if conditions of worth become part of a person’s self-concept?