I'm running into heap corruption with an application I'm developing, so I tried using Application Verifier to track it down, but now I can't seem to remove Application Verifier.
Running the original program loads the verifier automatically, removing it from application verifier or uninstalling application verifier didn't help.
The registry keys are my one lead, however I'm unsure what to do with them.
Solved, I had an application verifier as a part of the Windows SDK, as well as a standalone version. Another possible cause was I made sure I clicked 'save' after removing my application from the Application Verifier list.
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I've developed an Accessibility API console application in C++ for High Sierra (and lower) - uses AXUIElementCopyAttributeValue etc.
I've disabled SIP to give me a chance here to write to the Accessibility database using tccutil.
So, the application runs as expected in Xcode, given that I've enabled 'Xcode' in System Preferences->Security & Privacy->Privacy->Accessibility.
I've wrapped my console application into a .app so I can drag and drop into this Accessibility panel.
If I run the application outside of Xcode in a Terminal window, I have to also give Terminal.app Accessibility rights for the application to use the API otherwise nothing is extracted. This then seems that you must give the calling application the rights.
I'm trying to launch the application on startup via a LaunchAgent with root privileges, /usr/bin/sudo being the calling application. Launching a script instead to run the application seemed the better method. The application launches fine, infact the console application inside the .app is also added now to the Accessibility panel.
Unfortunately, the Accessibility side of things is still not working and I've run out of ideas?
Any help will be appreciated.
Many thanks in advance.
I added my C++ application to Application Verifier. I am able to run it by directly executing the exe. But if I run it from VS 2013 or WinDbg, it just hangs with 0 CPU usage.
Even if I directly execute the exe, at a certain point it uses all my memory (10GB), and I have to restart the computer. So now I do not have a way to use Application Verifier to debug it.
There is only one line log created when my application starts. I do not see any other logs in Application Verifier.
Does anyone know what is wrong with my case?
If I disable the TLS option in Application Verifier, it will work in a debugger.
Im using this guide "automating the testing of windows 8 apps" to test my windows store app
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsappdev/archive/2012/09/04/automating-the-testing-of-windows-8-apps.aspx
Unfortunaltely Ive run into a problem, I need to know when my app closes (crashes) or when it goes into suspended mode, to log that info, and I want the launcher to be able to know the application has stopped , unfortunately iApplicationActionManager, does not have that method. And IPackageDebugSettings which is used to change the application suspend and resume states does not have a readable current state property (afaik)
Is there any way to do this?
We have a Plugin that runs on Browser. This Plug is a DLL that creates an out proc COM Server (say MyApp.exe). Note that this app runs as an elevated server as given here.
The Entry point for MyApp.exe registers the CLSID in to ROT. Hence when the Registration occurs to ROT I am not sure if it maintains any security context for the running process.
From the plugin dll we try to fetch the registered instance of MyApp.exe. This fails saying Operation is unavailable since the plugin is running through an browser as Medium IL Level. (Yes, it works for me if UAC is turned OFF, issue is only when it is turned ON).
I've tried the registry modifications as mentioned in the above link and it does not work for me.
Please suggest.
Thanks
I'm am developing a Firefox extension which interfaces with an underlying Windows service (which I have already made).
During the development so far I encountered one bug in the installer program (which installs the FF extension AND the service). This was due to the security model on Vista requiring elevated privileges to be able to install and start the service. I adjusted the installer and now it installs fine (just with additional Vista'esque warning dialogs being displayed to end-users - which I can live with !)
I am now in the process of developing an XPCOM component that will install along with the XUL stuff I have already made. There will be a XUL javascript interface to the XPCOM which will try to do things like stop and start the service (e.g when user-configuration data is changed).
My question: Since FF will normally be run under a user account, will I run into any difficulties on Vista or other Windows flavors trying to start or stop my own service via XPCOM?
(When users run the installer I don't mind security dialogs popping up in Vista. But I certainly don't want this to happen whenever they try to change their info in the XUL interface.)
What is the correct way to go about this?
Yes, if your service is running as an Administrator then the Firefox process, running as a normal user will not be able to start or stop it. However, it appears that you can use the "sc" command to set access controls on your service from your installer, which means you can allow non-admin users to start and stop your service.
You'll need to use "sc sdset", which is documented (lightly) here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc742037%28WS.10%29.aspx
However, to use that, you'll need to read up on the "Security Descriptor Definition Language", which looks kind of complicated:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa379567%28VS.85%29.aspx
This blog entry appears to have some human-readable information on it:
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2008/03/26/parsing-sddl-strings.aspx