[Full-disclosure] MDaemon NOT vulnerable .. sorry for the advisory.. QBik Wingate is vulnerable

[Thierry Zoller]

Dear kcope,

Under windows the heap structure changes when a debugger is attached,
which may lead to an exploitable condition even when the condition is
not there without debugger.

There was a recent post on DailyDave about this "phenomena"
http://www.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2005-October/002585.html

QUOTE :
Also newer versions of windbg can be configured to prevent this:
"Processes created by the debugger behave slightly differently than they
would under normal conditions. Instead of using the standard heap API,
processes created by the debugger use a special *debug heap*. On Microsoft(r)
Windows XP and later versions of Windows, you can force a spawned process to
use the standard heap instead of the debug heap by using the



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