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Month Archives: August 2013

Mitigating the LdrHotPatchRoutine DEP/ASLR bypass with MS13-063

Monday, August 12, 2013

Today we released MS13-063 which includes a defense in depth change to address an exploitation technique that could be used to bypass two important platform mitigations: Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP). As we’ve described in the past, these mitigations play an important role in making it more difficult and costly for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities.

The story of MS13-002: How incorrectly casting fat pointers can make your code explode

Tuesday, August 06, 2013

C++ supports developers in object-orientated programming and removes from the developer the responsibility of dealing with many object-oriented programming (OOP) paradigm problems. But these problems do not magically disappear. Rather it is the compiler that aims to provide a solution to many of the complexities that arise from C++ objects, virtual methods, inheritance etc.