8. Linux Privilege Escalation Flashcards by Jose N FESTIN

Q

List the Linux Boot Order

A

MBR : Master Boot Record
GRUB : Grand Unified Bootloader
Kernel
Init: First Process
Run Level : After Boot

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Q

How do you interrupt GRUB?

A

Press ‘e’ on Banner Screen

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Q

What does change ro to rw means?

A

Read/Write

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Q

Does encrypt GRUB encrypt the entire drive?

A

FALSE

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Q

what does ‘unshadow’ do?

A

combines passwd and shadow files then john

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Q

What does DirtyCow exploit?

A

Unix Kernel

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