[Dailydave] The sky's downward trajectory

endrazine endrazine at gmail.com
Mon Feb 19 13:27:33 EST 2007


Hi dear readers,

Rhys Kidd a écrit :
>
> So what does Microsoft provide to make this more secure?
>
> Firstly the push by Michael Howard et al to get ASLR implemented in 
> Vista beta 2 and above means the addresses within ntdll.dll are going 
> to be somewhat random, thereby making reliable use of this technique 
> difficult. NX bit based defenses really should be implemented 
> hand-in-hand with some form of memory randomisation, as was documented 
> by the PaX project.
>
Put me in my place if I'm wrong, but adresses are only randomized once 
at boot up, making the Vista randomization far less effective than a run 
time randomization a la PaX. Well, at least, thats what I understood 
from the Microsoft TechDays in Paris 2 weeks ago.
> Secondly, as Dave mentioned setting "AlwaysOn" in boot.ini should 
> prevent DEP from being disabled on a per-process basis.
>
> HTH.
> Rhys
>   

Regards,

endrazine-


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