Defuse a SUID privilege escalation

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Objectives

  • Not met: The setuid bit is gone; the tool no longer runs as root
  • Not met: Neither group members nor anyone else can modify the binary
  • Met: Regular users can still run the tool
  • Met: The binary is still owned by root

2 of 4 objectives met.

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