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Introduction

Ok, I have a confession to make, I have always been somewhat intrigued by egghunters. That doesn’t mean that I like to use (or abuse) an egghunter just because I fancy what it does. In fact, I Read more

Introduction

Hi all,

Over the course of the past few weeks ago, I received a number of "emergency" calls from some relatives, asking me to look at their computer because "things were broken", "things looked different" and "I think Read more

Introduction

Hi all,

While preparing for my Advanced exploit dev course at Derbycon, I’ve been playing with heap allocation primitives in IE.  One of the things that causes some frustration (or, at least, tends to slow me down during Read more

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Analyzing the Crash Data
• Identifying the Cause of Exception
  • Page heap
  • Initial analysis
• Reversing the Faulty Function
• Determining Exploitability
  • Challenges
  • Prerequisites
  • Heap Basics
    • Lookaside Lists
    • Freelists
  • Preventative Security Measures
    • Safe-Unlinking
    • Heap Cookies
  • Application Specific Read more

Introduction

For the past year or so I’ve spent a significant amount of time fuzzing various applications with the hopes of identifying exploitable crashes.  Early on in my research I quickly realized that building fuzzers and generating large quantities Read more

Introduction

Last week, while doing my bi-weekly courseware review and update, I discovered that my heap spray script for Firefox 9 no longer works on recent versions.  Looking back at the type of tricks I had to use to Read more

Introduction

Time flies. Almost 3 weeks have passed since we announced the ability to run mona.py under WinDBG.  A lot of work has been done on mona.py in the meantime.  We improved stability and performance, updated to pykd.pyd 0.2.0.14 Read more

Ho Ho Ho friends,

It has been a while since we posted something on the Corelan Team blog, I guess we all have been busy doing … stuff and things, here and there.  Nevertheless, as the year is close Read more

I’m not going to spend a lot of words on this. Facts speak for themselves. 

A short while ago, I discovered this:

http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3031925

(you need to register to get access to the thread).  Screenshot :

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