The payload (“badfile”), which being properly created with T…

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. 

Suppose the regular user seed (UID 1000) was able to success…

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. 

As a child of divorced parents, a teenager has always been i…

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