On Sunday 04 July 2010 22:31:49 Dan Kegel wrote: > >> the Makefile has: > >> EXTRADLLFLAGS = -Wb,-F,KERNEL32.dll -Wl,--image-base,0x7b800000 > > > >Is there a good reason for this? Otherwise, this opens a security > >vulnerability in Wine that does not exist in Windows.... > > This is the way Windows worked before Vista. > (Does Vista actually randomize where even ntdll is?) > > BTW our CreateRemoteThread conformance test checks whether > the module has been loaded at a different address, and skips if it > has...
http://www.nynaeve.net/?p=198 has a pretty good explanation why certain DLLs must be loaded at same address; one example why Wine should care is to satisfy programs injecting code in different processes.
