plagiarising someone's story to share with my team
I'd like to start off by promising what you're going to read below wasn't me. Mostly because I think I'm above all Linux people; I use Arch btw.
Our class assignment was to share some story. It's been about a year so I don't remember any details and I'm too lazy to open up the LMS.
However, I saved this excerpt because of just how good it is. And it's here because I need to share this with my processor design team
My main machine/os was Ubuntu. I was running a binary to exploit locally, and it needed a specific glibc version to in order to successfully run the exploit on the remote server.
The current Ubuntu version(22.04) had a libc version of 2.35, and the binary required 2.31. Instead of using Docker to spawn Ubuntu 20.04, I tried to replace my current libc with the mismatching(previous) version forcefully.
Although the system kept screaming at me not to replace it with a bunch of warnings and errors, I kept pushing. I realized I didn't have the right privileges for it and became root to have the maximum privilege when running every command. That's when I violated Ubuntu's least privilege design. So I basically ended up deleting the OS's core libraries, which is why I am writing this from Windows.
This was then followed up by a lot of help vampiring.