UQ Cyber Squad 0x03 Shells

Introduction 0x03 Shells session presented by the UQ Cyber Squad. Access via OpenVPN connection. OpenVPN configuration bundle provided during the workshop. Challenge 1 - Family Binding Time - 10pts Let’s bind together at 192.168.57.11:8297 nc 192.168.57.11 8297iduid=1002(user) gid=1002(user) groups=1002(user)pwd/home/userls -lastotal 604 drwxr-xr-x 3 user user 4096 Mar 27 06:02 .4 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Mar 24 02:13 ..4 -rw------- 1 user user 1584 Mar 26 01:26 .

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Patching Bash “shellshock” on Apple Mac OS X 10.9.5

Given the recent bash vulnerability disclosure[1]most linux distributions havereleased patches. Unfortunately Apple still expected users to compiletheir patches into bash. If you were using Homebrew or Macport you werein better standing and simply had to create symlinks to the patchedexecutables. I’ve documented the steps I had to take on my Macdesktop. Compile mkdir bash cd bash/ wget http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/bash/bash-92.tar.gz tar zxvf bash-92.tar.gz cd bash-92 cd bash-3.2/ curl https://ftp.

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Gnu Screen

Running some experiment on a VM server I rapidly ran out of patiencehaving to wait for commands to run, and/or switching back and forthusing Ctrl+Z, bg, and fg. My thoughts went back to Nick Black who hadintroduced me to Gnu Screen several years back, alas I has forgotten theshort-cuts, Thankfully Google and the man page came to the rescue. Since the VM server was a CentOS 6.

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