https://ahessmat.netlify.com/tags/project/Recent content in project on Asa's WebsiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 25 Jul 2021 04:04:38 +0000https://ahessmat.netlify.com/post/2021-07-suidcheck/Sun, 25 Jul 2021 04:04:38 +0000https://ahessmat.netlify.com/post/2021-07-suidcheck/One thing you have to keep in mind when securing your UNIX-based systems is the presence of binaries that have inappropriate permissions. I recently released a working proof-of-concept (POC) code for identifying vulnerable UNIX binaries that have their SUID bit set. A little background: The Set owner user ID (SUID) bit denotes which user ID a given binary should be run as. Generally, a UNIX program inherits permissions from the user that runs it (i.