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Challenge II

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There exists a misconfiguration on the target machine due to which a normal user can escalate to root user. As an attacker, you have managed to get a shell on the target machine as user "james".

Please answer the following questions:

1. The suid binary on execution tries to execute a function from a missing library. What is the name of that function?

2. The suid binary on execution looks for a shared library object in multiple locations. The user "james" only has write permissions on one of such location. Provide the absolute path of that location/directory?

3. Retrieve the flag kept in the root user’s home directory? 


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Verify:
1. The suid binary on execution tries to execute a function from a missing library. What is the name of that function?
 
2. The user 'james' only has write permissions on one of such location. Provide the absolute path of that location/directory?
 
3. Retrieve the flag kept in the root user’s home directory?
 

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