[Dailydave] Nitin Kumar & Vipin Kumar: "please remember to givenecessary credit to the authors" PKB.

[Dave Korn]

On 26 April 2007 22:23, Dave Korn wrote:


>   I will concede that they've done at least some genuine work in reversing
> the integrity checks in the loader, but that's fairly routine stuff;
> bypassing a check by altering the test in a branch instruction is pretty
> trivial, it's about on the level of finding an infinite lives poke in a
> computer game. 

  Now I see this coming back at me on the list, it occurs to me to mention a
*far* more relevant comparison: it's exactly what Hoglund showed in his
earliest work about hot-patching a one-byte bypass into SeAccessCheck.  That
was back in NT3.51 days, 1995 or so IIRC.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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