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Last friday (july 17th 2009), somebody (nick)named ‘Crazy_Hacker’ has reported a vulnerability in Easy RM to MP3 Conversion Utility (on XP SP2 En), via packetstormsecurity.org. (see http://packetstormsecurity.org/0907-exploits/). The vulnerability report included a proof of concept exploit (which, by the way,� failed to work on my MS Virtual PC based XP SP3 En). Another exploit was released just a little bit […]

In the PC architecture there are four basic read-write memory regions in a program: Stack, Data, BSS (Block Started by Symbol), and Heap. The data, BSS, and heap areas are collectively referred to as the ”data segment”. In the tutorial titled “Memory Layout And The Stack” [1], Peter Jay Salzman described memory layout in a […]