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Dailydave: Re: Vista SP1

Re: Vista SP1

From: Alexander Sotirov <alex_at_sotirov.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:57:51 -0700

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:27:18AM -0400, Dave Aitel wrote:
> Vista SP1 was released to Automatic Update. One thing about SP1 is that it
> breaks the Flash exploit Mark Dowd describes in his paper by making certain
> memory NX.

What memory does SP1 make NX? The iexplore.exe process is not on the OptIn DEP
list in Vista SP1, so everything in memory is always executable.

Alex

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