Companies are popping up hoping to crowdsource temporary security patches: patching a 0-day: Windows gdi32.dll memory disclosure | https://news.ycombinator.com

Companies are popping up hoping to crowdsource temporary security patches: patching a 0-day: Windows gdi32.dll memory disclosure | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13774397 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13774397 (Mar 2017, 43 comments) >sst8: Live patching is gaining the momentum - see Ksplice, Kpatch, kGraft, XEN and similar >dielel: Our micropatch (7 of them, really, for 4 different Windows OS versions) for CVE-2017-0038 is user-mode. As are currently all our micropatches. Processes using gdi32.dll do not need to be relaunched to have it applied. -- The list of hot-reloading alternatives was awesome; I sometimes wish I could 'star' a single file like that README: https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus https://github.com/RuntimeCompiledCPlusPlus/RuntimeCompiledC... This technique of manually NOP-ing out things at runtime is definitely beyond my usual approach of setting a breakpoint and then choosing where to continue execution manually!