Command Injection and Confinement

Terms and concepts you should know

Paul Krzyzanowski

February 15, 2022

  • Integer overflow & underflow
  • Casting differnt types of ints
  • Command injection
  • Escaping characters
  • Parameterized queries
  • system, popen
  • Python subprocess
  • Python compile, eval, exec
  • String formatting attacks
  • PATH environment variable
  • Function interposition
  • LD_PRELOAD environment variable
  • Assumptions about open files
  • Problems with obscurity
  • Path traversal vulnerabilities
  • Unicode problems
  • TOCTTOU attacks
  • Problems with temp file creation
  • chroot jails
  • Deficiencies of chroot
  • Jailkits
  • FreeBSD Jail improvments
  • Linux Namespaces
  • clone() system call
  • Linux capabilities
  • Linux control groups
  • Lightweight process virtualization
  • Container components
  • Copy on write (CoW) file system
  • AppArmor
  • Container orchestration
  • Operating system level virtualization
  • Process virtual machines
  • Virtual machines
  • Hypervisor (virtual machine monitor)
  • Trap & emulate
  • Guest mode execution
  • Native (bare metal) VM vs. hosted VM
  • Covert channel
Last modified November 3, 2024.
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