full-disclosure - ASLR now built into Vista

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Date: Fri May 26 12:54:38 2006
From: 0x80 at hush.ai (0x80@...h.ai)
Subject: ASLR now built into Vista

So is this a paid Microsoft advertisment?

On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:22:49 +1000 David Litchfield 
<davidl@...software.com> wrote:
>Address Space Layout Randomization is now part of Vista as of beta 

>2 [1] . I 
>wrote about ASLR on the Windows platform back in September last 
>year [2] and 
>noted that unless you rebase the image exe then little (not none!) 

>is added. 
>ASLR in Vista solves this so remote exploitation of overflows has 
>just got a 
>lot harder. I've not done a thorough analysis yet but, all going 
>well, this 
>is a fantastic way for Microsoft to go and builds on the work done 

>with 
>NX/DEP and stack cookies/canaries.
>
>Cheers,
>David Litchfield
>
>[1] 
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsvista/downloads/products/getthebet

>a/default.aspx
>[2] http://www.ngssoftware.com/papers/xpms.pdf
>
>
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