Setuid Vulnerabilities

Setuid Vulnerabilities is a security flaw in Unix-like operating systems wherein a program with setuid permissions can be exploited to grant unauthorized elevated privileges to an attacker due to insufficient validation of user inputs or improper handling of execution context.

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118

Citations

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Publications per year

2017–2026

Parents

Privilege Escalation

Publications

Fixing races for fun and profit: how to use access(2)

Drew Dean, Alan J. Hu · 2004 · 37 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +17

Property-based testing of privileged programs

G. Fink, Karl Levitt · 2002 · 31 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +14

How To Write a Setuid Program

Matt Bishop · Neural Plasticity · 2001 · 26 citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +8

The murky issue of changin process identity: revising "setuid demystified"

Dan Tsafrir, Dilma Da Silva, David Wagner · ;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE · 2008 · 13 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +15

Practical techniques to obviate setuid-to-root binaries

Bhushan Jain, Chia-Che Tsai, Jitin John et al. · 2014 · 11 citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Systems +16

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Dan Tsafrir
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
1 publications · 13 citations
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David Wagner
University of California, Berkeley, United States
1 publications · 13 citations
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Donald E. Porter
Stony Brook University, United States
1 publications · 11 citations
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Jitin John
Stony Brook University, United States
1 publications · 11 citations
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Drew Dean
SRI International, United States
1 publications · 37 citations
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Neural Plasticity
1 publications · 26 citations
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;login:: the magazine of USENIX & SAGE
1 publications · 13 citations
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