Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) is a technology used to help prevent shellcode from being successful. It does this by randomly offsetting the location of modules and certain in-memory structures.
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How do ASLR and DEP work?
How do Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP) work, in terms of preventing vulnerabilities from being exploited? Can they be bypassed?
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How “leaking pointers” to bypass DEP/ASLR works
I was wondering if anyone could give me some clues on how "leaking pointers" to bypass DEP/ASLR work. I read here:
The only way to reliably bypass DEP and ASLR is through an pointer
leak. This ...
