Uploaded August 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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A bit more code review of sudo to understand why it's vulnerable and what the conditions are to get there.

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Episode 08:

CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:18 - The Heap Overflow
02:27 - Identifying the Conditions to Reach the Vulnerable Code
03:00 - The sudo Modes
03:40 - Sudo is Escaping The Arguments!
04:25 - How to Skip the Escaping?
05:16 - The Curious Case of "sudoedit"
06:15 - Exploring Alternative sudo modes
07:05 - Outro
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