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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

Good morning,

Since doing live-blogging seemed to work out pretty well yesterday, I’ll do the same thing again today.  Please join in for day 3 at BlackHat Europe 2012, in a cloudy and rainy Amsterdam.

The first talk Read more

A lot has been said and written already about heap spraying, but most of the existing documentation and whitepapers focus on IE7 or older versions. Although there are a number of public exploits available that target IE8, the exact technique to do so has not been really documented in detail. Of course, you can probably derive how it works by looking at those public exploits. With this tutorial, I'm going to provide you with a full and detailed overview on what heap spraying is, and how to use it on old and newer platforms. I'll start with some "ancient" techniques (or classic techniques if you will) that can be used on IE6 and IE7. We'll also look at heap spraying for non-browser applications. Next, we'll talk about precision heap spraying, which is a requirement to make DEP bypass exploits work on IE8. I'll finish this tutorial with sharing some of my own research on getting reliable heap spraying to work on IE9. Read more

A few days ago a friend approached me and asked how he could see the import address table under immunity debugger and if this could be done using the command line. I figured this would be a good time to take a look at what the IAT is, how we can list the IAT and what common reversing hurdles could be with regards to the IAT. Read more