[VulnDiscuss] RE: Preventing exploitation with rebasing

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Litchfield [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 12:09 AM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected];
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> Subject: Preventing exploitation with rebasing
> 

> So how easy is it to rebase DLLs and executables? Very. Microsoft have
> provided a function to do this, ReBaseImage(), exported by 
> imagehlp.dll. If
> you rebase an image the new base must be on a 64K boundary - 
> i.e. if the
> image base mod 64000 !=0 the base is not valid.
> 

There is a tool called "ReBase" shipped with Visual C++ and Visual C++.NET.

<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/tools/perf
util_2z39.asp>

<quote>
Rebase is a command-line tool that you can use to specify the base addresses
for the DLLs that your application uses. 
</quote>

<quote>
Alternatively, you can use the ReBaseImage function.
</quote>


Chris Ren

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