DEP, the short for Data Execution Prevention, is a security feature included in recent operating systems meant to prevent an application or service from executing code from a non-executable memory region.
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Uppdating azure-sdk-for-go library dependancies
What is the best practice to carry out this task?
What I tried so far, simply run command dep ensure -update github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-go
that threw the following error:
Warning: the following project(s) have [[constraint]] stanzas in…

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Dependency issue within two projects that use same lib
I have two projects:
/myproject
/sharedproject
both of them are managed by dep, I have execute go get -u github.com/golang/dep/cmd/dep in order to have latest dep version, and run dep ensure on both projects.
When I run myproject I get following…

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golang dep update source field in Gopkg.toml
I add a line into Gopkg.toml that is source="github.com/xxxx/xxxx". then call dep ensure -update. but the old dir still in vendor, it not work by add source into Gopkg.toml.
how to do it?

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docker: flag provided but not defined
I am using prometheus-postgresql-adapter for my project and I am trying to run it in Docker.
And I am going through all of their documentation:
go get -u github.com/timescale/prometheus-postgresql-adapter
dep ensure
make
When i wrote make command…

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Fresh ubuntu set-up Golang + dep, dep ensure doesn't do anything
I'm having an annoying problem and I can't find what the problem is. I'm quite new to Ubuntu/Golang/dep but I'm trying to understand how it works.
I have a source project, with the vendor files, when I run the command dep ensure, nothing happens,…
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dep ensure fails with Solving failure: failed to clean up git repository .
I am trying to import the go repo
https://github.com/cloudfoundry/cli
My dep init or dep ensure commands fail when I add the import statement in my go program.
I am not sure what is the reason I am not able to get the repo. I can do a git clone in…

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Changing nx-bit directly from paging-level structures
I'm studying about Virtual Address Translation in Windows 10 x64. I also read about PML4,PDP,PDE and PTE and now I'm trying to change the stack's nx-bit in order to execute code in stack by modifying the paging structures.
I saw the following image…

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How do self-extracting programs work?
Recently I've been working on writing a compressor for graphing calculator programs, where space is minimal and the calculator OS doesn't care if you set the instruction pointer to an arbitrary address.
I implemented the basic DEFLATE and then tried…

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Interpreting Access Violation Exceptions?
We have a custom application we use built around VB/C++ code.
This code will run for days, weeks, months, without this throwing up an exception error.
I'm trying to learn more about how this error is thrown, and how to interpret (if you can) the…

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PHP oAuth Signature Invalid - Apple DEP
I am trying to get my auth_session_token from Apple's DEP system for a MDM Server I am working on with PHP. I am so close but for some reason keep getting the following response from Apple's server:
signature_invalidUnauthorized
I have tried a slue…

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Bad characters in Return Oriented Programming
I am writing a rop chain for a vulnerable program (stack overflow, with NX and ASLR turned on).
I follow the execution of my gadgets by watching the stack pointer on gdb peda. It works well except when it encounters a gadget mov[eax], edx; ret. This…

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DEP and ASLR and how to use it?
ASLR and DEP are two techniques that are used to protect applications from hackers. With many modern applications becoming more security-aware, these techniques are becoming more important. For now, I just focus on Windows 7 and these techniques. I…

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PRISM/MEF and DEP not working
I'm currently developing an Application with PRISM and MEF.
This Application will only run on some computers. On some others appears the following message:
A Problem has has stopped the correct execution of this program. Please close the…

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DEP (/NXCOMPAT) causing segfault in LoadLibrary (down in DllMainCRTStartup)
In this case I do have the source for both the application and the dll.
When both are compiled without /NXCOMPAT, they work together fine. But when I compile both with /NXCOMPAT, I get a segfault deep in kernelspace.
If I compile the dll with…

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Embarcadero Builder C++ XE5 data execution prevention compiler
Hope this isn't an obvious issue. I've recently run in exceptions due to a lack of Data Execution Prevention (DEP) support in our 32-bit exe on a Windows 2008 R2 server. Adding the exe to the DEP exclusion list, solved the issue as a workaround.
I…

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