Finding and judging a vulnerability

A version is a fact and a vulnerability is a judgement about it. This set checks that you can read a version, compare two of them the way their numbers order, and say what would make a finding worth acting on.

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Questions

Each one is marked as you go, and the explanation arrives straight after, which is the part worth reading.

4 questions, marked as you go.

1 Why does sort -V order 3.0.7 before 3.0.13 when a plain sort does not?
2 Which question turns a version number into a judgement?
3 A service that is out of date is bound to 127.0.0.1. How does that change the judgement?
4 When a fix needs root and you are an ordinary app user, what is the honest move?

Tasks

These need your own device. Run the command in Termux, then paste what it printed. The marking looks at what the output means, so spacing, version numbers and ordering do not matter. If you have not installed anything yet, the lesson covers the setup.

Read the version of a component you run

This prints the version and build details of OpenSSL, a component on every device. Paste the output, and read the first line for the version number.

Run this in Termux On your own device. Nothing on this page executes it. The command runs in your terminal, and this box only reads what you paste back.

openssl version -a
Marking your own work Both halves of this are checked in your browser, with no server involved, so nothing stops you from pasting output you did not run. The tasks are written so that the easiest way to pass one is to actually do it and read the result, which is the whole intention.

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