FEfelsokning·Feb 17, 2024
ClrMD[1] is great, if you want info on debugging .NET.
[1] - https://github.com/microsoft/clrmd
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Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime is a set of APIs for introspecting processes and dumps.
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Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime is a set of APIs for introspecting processes and dumps.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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4 sources>Windows Exploitation Tricks: Abusing the User-Mode Debugger
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>Nothing I’ve described here is a security vulnerability, but the behavior is interesting and it’s worth looking out for cases where it could be used.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding this newfangled internets but isn't exploitation generally synonymous with security vulnerability?
JFYI, for anyone who's interested, the equivalent debugging API methods in .NET could be found in ClrMd[0] but it's as unyielding a beast as the native methods.
[0] - https://github.com/microsoft/clrmd
In Windows Exploitation Tricks: Abusing the User-Mode Debugger>Can we finally say that DDG is better for some searches than Google?
I think we're close. For some things, it's still not the best but instead of going to <insert another search engine here>, I try to modify my query to scope to what I'm looking for.
In a crude example, if I'm looking for the "LoadCrashDump" method,, which is specific to ClrMD[0], I can simply construct my query as "ClrMD: LoadCrashDump".
[0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/clrmd/blob/ac36603e37ef7c8ba05d...
In Google proposes changes to Chromium which would disable uBlock OriginWe have an internal tool where we can dump stack traces almost instantly by attaching to a running process. We can't open source it due to using Microsoft lab code which was never licensed itself. However, clrmd (https://github.com/Microsoft/clrmd and https://www.nuget.org/packages/Microsoft.Diagnostics.Runtime) means an open source version is hopefully on the horizon. As an example, here's the result of me piddling in 2 hours with LinqPad: https://gist.github.com/NickCraver/d6292c0c7f93767686e8c5c89... Process attachment is in the clrmd roadmap, but isn't stable yet.
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