Invalid PE Produced, Relocation, Base Zero

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bitRAKE

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bitRAKE 28 May 2013, 11:05

I've been using a base address of zero with fixup data to force ASLR. Sometimes FASM would produce a EXE that would not run, "The parameter is incorrect." - which I didn't see because FDBG was just pretending the file didn't exist. So, then I reverted to a previous version of my code and the error went away.

It came back again and I caught it this time.

Code:

FORMAT PE64 GUI 6.0 AT 0 ; force ASLR
SECTION '' CODE EXECUTABLE READABLE

entry $
retn

Examples dq \
  .A,.A..,\
  .B,.B..,\
  .C,.C..

.A db 1
.A.. = $ - .A
.B db 2
.B.. = $ - .B
.C db 3
.C.. = $ - .C

; Address Space Layout Randomization
SECTION '' DATA READABLE DISCARDABLE FIXUPS

It's frustrating how a very small change makes the problem disappear:

Code:

Examples dq \
  .A,.A..,\
  .B,.B..;,\ ; just remove the last table entry and it works
;  .C,.C..

...odd, but hopefully that helps narrow it down. The larger project had many more relocations - it was just this table - which puzzled me further. I'll look for it when I have more time - just happy to know what it is at this point. Easy work around is just to use a different base address.

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28 May 2013, 11:05

revolution
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revolution 28 May 2013, 11:47

bitRAKE wrote:

Easy work around is just to use a different base address.

Are you sure it is a fasm problem? If I only change the base address and do a binary compare I see that only those fields that are expected to change are altered. So nothing wrong there. Perhaps it is the OS rejecting the file for some unknown reason.

28 May 2013, 11:47

bitRAKE

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bitRAKE 28 May 2013, 12:20

I'd need to dig deeper to be certain of that. At this point it's an unusual corner case that produces a PE that windows not only doesn't like, but displays an error message for. It's not because of the base address - I have several programs here that use a base address of zero. Maybe it has something to do with the encoding of the relocation data.

Edit: Nah, that doesn't make sense because it works fine with another base. "Unknown reason" is as far as I can get right now on it, too. Smile

28 May 2013, 12:20

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