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.NET Framework Security
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.NET Framework Security

by Brian A. LaMacchia, Sebastian Lange, Matthew Lyons, Rudi Martin, Kevin T. Price
April 2002
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
20h 56m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Being Careful About What Code Gets Executed

Beyond simply protecting data your application uses, there are some special cases where you may end up executing code that you didn't intend to execute. Those special cases include the following:

  • LinkDemands and inheritance

  • Virtual, internal methods

  • Delegates and stack walks

  • Loading assemblies on behalf of other code

  • Exceptions and filters

  • Race conditions

LinkDemands and Inheritance

It is of the utmost importance to remember that LinkDemands trigger when a method is JITted, not while a method is actually executing. Thus, applying LinkDemands to interfaces, classes, and virtual methods has a big caveat. If there is an inheritance hierarchy where LinkDemands are not applied uniformly for a given method, malicious ...

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