Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.5.63 accesses below %esp (was: Re: ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)) | Date | Fri, 14 Mar 2003 19:01:39 +0100 | From | Olaf Titz <> |
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> code is designed to be easily decoded forward, noone executes code going > backwards. Finding out what starts at EIP is easy.
I remember reading once in a magazine that there exists an undocumented/illegal instruction in the x86 which causes the IP to run backwards, similar to setting the D flag.
Was an April 1st issue though ;-)
Olaf
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