[Patch]: Win95

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@netscape.net
Tue Mar 23 01:12:00 GMT 2004


matt wrote:

>>Can you believe that the address appears 5 times on the stack on Win95,
>>twice on ME, once on NT4.0?
>>
>>Now that the method is stable (after 1.5.10 is released), couldn't we
> 
> store
> 
>>the offsets in wincap, keeping the adaptive method as a backup in the
>>unknown case? Or are there many variations?
> 
> 
> I can tell you from the perspective of writing shellcode and rootkits on
> windows that assuming offsets will be the same is not a good idea if you are
> going for something that is to be widely deployed. Not only can they vary
> between service packs/patches, but also between language editions of the OS.
> 

What would you suggest doing instead?

Cheers,
Nicholas



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