[Dailydave] VPC

Alexander Sotirov alex at sotirov.net
Sun Feb 24 03:39:58 EST 2008


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:54:05AM -0500, Dave Aitel wrote:
> So in the Microsoft/Immunity/iSec Defend the Flag class here at BlackHat 
> Federal, I learned the hard way that VPC moves memory all around and 
> your previously great universal addresses don't work. So you'll end up 
> trying really hard to find an address that defeats SafeSEH on 2003 SP0 
> in 15 minutes or less.

Are you talking about Microsoft Virtual PC or something else? What do you
mean by "moves memory all around"? If you boot 2003 SP0 inside a virtual
machine, the Windows kernel is not magically going to gain ASLR support,
so why why wouldn't a universal address work?

Alex
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