Linux Privilege Escalation with LD_PRELOAD (Sudo)

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What is an Environment Variable?

Ans : Variable is just like the variable that we learnt in Maths Class. But we all suck at maths so let’s define variables once again. Variable is like a container that stores stuff. If we want that stuff, we can just call that Variable. In linux we use some variables that contains some crucial information that the system needs to do tasks. Before doing any task, the system checks relevant variables. As …

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