full-disclosure - Re: Windows .ANI LoadAniIcon Stack Overflow

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Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 10:06:21 -0400
From: "Larry Seltzer" <Larry@...ryseltzer.com>
To: "Thierry Zoller" <Thierry@...ler.lu>, <full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Windows .ANI LoadAniIcon Stack Overflow

AS> A much simpler solution is to use heap spraying (which works fine on

AS> Vista) for systems that don't have DEP enabled.
TZ> Are we talking Sofware DEP or Hardware enforce DEP ? 

Heap spraying implies running code in the heap, which any DEP should
block. There are all kinds of software techniques that would detect heap
spraying. I'm sure any HIPS would block it. But like DEP they're not on
in Windows by default.

Larry Seltzer
eWEEK.com Security Center Editor
http://security.eweek.com/
http://blog.eweek.com/blogs/larry%5Fseltzer/
Contributing Editor, PC Magazine
larryseltzer@...fdavis.com 

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