Defeating XP SP2 Heap Protection

MaxPatrol Team has published a detailed document that shows how is possible to defeat Microsoft Windows XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) mechanism.

As a result of this exploit, could be possible to implement:

  • Arbitrary memory region write access (smaller or equal to 1016 bytes)
  • Arbitrary code execution
  • DEP bypass

Details are described in this article, available in PDF format or HTML format.

My question is always the same in this cases: the article is undoubtely an interesting reading, but when I see exploit code public available on the Internet, I'm asking if it's really necessary to publish it...

Print | posted on Sunday, January 30, 2005 2:18 PM

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