man QA/QC

[kirk-bond]

• Name: man
• Designer: Kirk
• Category: *Nix Trix
• Description: Hiding a flag in a man page markup language
• Required Resources: alpine docker with bash vim nano mdocml-apropos man man-pages docs challenge file timestop-fu
• Flag: acsc18{man_strings_is_a_terrible_Google_image_search}

When you are done with the QA/QC, please enter a comment stating so and how you would rate the difficulty . If you see any issues please note them in the comment as well.

• [x] Dockerized
• [ ] Tested
• [ ] Loaded to Game Engine
• [ ] Loaded to Environment
• [ ] Tested in Environment

Difficulty key

0 - No background 3 - JCAC (Basic) 6 - Scripting (Senior) 9 - Reverse Engineer (Master)

Creator suggests a 6. It took me quite some time to find where man pages pull their source from. Timestomping everything takes away the obvious route of searching for modified files.

Instructions: For each new challenge complete the above information. Assign the "QA/QC" and "Load Game Engine", labels to all challenges. If required add "Dockerize" and "Challenge Server" for challenges that need to be dockerized or will have to be hosted on the challenge server

[ghost]

Couple of issues with this one:

Do we still need man1 in the repo if this is the replacement? Is the intent to modify the C library strings.h manpage? Or was the goal to modify the strings binary manpage? The strings.h manpage is currently the one that is modified and might throw people off.

/usr/share/man/man0/strings.h.0p (C library) /usr/share/man/man1/strings.1p (strings binary)

If its correct how it stands, might need to modify the narrative to reflect the strings library.

Difficulty: 4.5

[ghost]

35 points