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sufficient for all the processes. However, in newer versions of
Windows which use separate address spaces for each program, it is only possible to use the same relocated copy of the DLL in multiple programs if each program has the same virtual addresses free to accommodate the DLL's code. If some programs (or their combination of already-loaded DLLs) do not have those addresses free, then an additional physical copy of the DLL's code will need to be created, using a different set of relocated entry points. If the physical memory occupied by a code section is to be reclaimed, its contents are discarded, and later reloaded directly from the DLL file as necessary.
309:. These extra layers on top of DOS had to be shared across all running Windows programs, not just to enable Windows to work in a machine with less than a megabyte of RAM, but to enable the programs to co-operate with each other. The code in GDI needed to translate drawing commands to operations on specific devices. On the display, it had to manipulate pixels in the frame buffer. When drawing to a printer, the API calls had to be transformed into requests to a printer. Although it could have been possible to provide hard-coded support for a limited set of devices (like the
335:, sections of code are simply added to the calling program when its executable is built at the "linking" phase; if two programs call the same routine, the routine is included in both the programs during the linking stage of the two. With dynamic linking, shared code is placed into a single, separate file. The programs that call this file are connected to it at run time, with the operating system (or, in the case of early versions of Windows, the OS-extension), performing the binding.
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DLLs of their respective
Windows release. A good opportunity to bind an application's imports to its target environment is during the application's installation. This keeps the libraries "bound" until the next OS update. It does, however, change the checksum of the executable, so it is not something that can be done with signed programs, or programs that are managed by a configuration management tool that uses checksums (such as
527:), all of its code sections are marked as read and write, and will be unshared. Read-and-write code sections, much like private data sections, are private to each process. Thus DLLs with shared data sections should not be compressed if they are intended to be used simultaneously by multiple programs, since each program instance would have to carry its own copy of the DLL, resulting in increased memory consumption.
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saves the timestamp and checksum of the DLL to which the import is bound. At run-time, Windows checks to see if the same version of library is being used, and if so, Windows bypasses processing the imports. Otherwise, if the library is different from the one which was bound to, Windows processes the
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commonly known as DLL hijacking, DLL spoofing, DLL preloading or binary planting, many programs will load and execute a malicious DLL contained in the same folder as a data file opened by these programs. The vulnerability was discovered by Georgi
Guninski in 2000. In August 2010 it gained worldwide
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as it is loaded, fixing addresses for all its entry points at locations which are free in the memory space of the first process to load the DLL. In older versions of
Windows, in which all running processes occupied a single common address space, a single copy of the DLL's code would always be
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file must be placed in one of the directories listed in the PATH environment variable, in the default system directory, or in the same directory as the program using it. COM server DLLs are registered using regsvr32.exe, which places the DLL's location and its globally unique ID
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delayed loading of the dynamic library. In this case, the operating system will not try to find or load the DLL when the application starts; instead, a stub is included in the application by the linker which will try to find and load the DLL through
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functions to be exported by ordinal only. For most
Windows API functions only the names are preserved across different Windows releases; the ordinals are subject to change. Thus, one cannot reliably import Windows API functions by their ordinals.
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547:. The usual way to tell an import library from a proper static library is by size: the import library is much smaller as it only contains symbols referring to the actual DLL, to be processed at link-time. Both nevertheless are Unix
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the current working directory is looked up before the system library directories), and thus to a malicious version of the library. See the reference for Microsoft's guidance on safe library loading: one should use
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toolchain can generate import libraries and link to them, it is faster to link to the DLL directly. An experimental tool in MinGW called genlib can be used to generate import libs with MSVC-style symbols.
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2860:. Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1997.
2843:Windows System Programming Third Edition
2657:"Carpet Bombing and Directory Poisoning"
2286:"Understanding the Import Address Table"
1859:"ERROR: unable to find DLL function
1055:// Import function that adds two numbers
898:// import function that adds two numbers
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426:Virtualization-based solutions such as
301:(GDI), was implemented in a DLL called
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2352:"Linker Support for Delay-Loaded DLLs"
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2925:Microsoft specification for dll files
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2661:Carnegie Mellon University - SEI Blog
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432:Microsoft Application Virtualization
3713:Distributed Transaction Coordinator
2655:Dormann, Will (September 4, 2008).
2407:"Dynamic-link library search order"
2247:Microsoft Developer Network Library
771:of imported functions are allowed.
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834:DLL compilation will produce both
519:If a DLL is compressed by certain
281:ran programs together in a single
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1772:"ERROR: unable to load DLL
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2914:Dynamic-Link Library Functions
2476:"Component Object Model (COM)"
2243:"Creating a Resource-Only DLL"
827:file used by the project. The
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579:Symbol resolution and binding
539:file extension. For example,
331:In a conventional non-shared
203:, sometimes having extension
3918:Open XML Paper Specification
3778:Remote Installation Services
2986:Microsoft Windows components
2762:"fsc-2015-4 - F-Secure Labs"
2372:Petrusha, Ron (2005-04-26).
1367:"The result was: "
4070:Windows Subsystem for Linux
4029:Mandatory Integrity Control
3783:Windows Deployment Services
3580:Wireless Zero Configuration
2411:Microsoft Developer Network
2117:"The result was:"
625:by Microsoft, by using the
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3748:Network Access Protection
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2495:"DLL Spoofing in Windows"
2316:"Building and Using DLLs"
1625:// DLL function signature
617:Explicit run-time linking
604:imports in a normal way.
497:position-independent code
313:display, the HP LaserJet
299:Graphics Device Interface
3989:Security and Maintenance
3933:Security Account Manager
3527:Windows XP visual styles
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2261:"The End of DLL Hell"
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1922:// Unload DLL file
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3260:Feedback Hub
3255:Fax and Scan
3150:Task Manager
3080:Event Viewer
3060:Disk Cleanup
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