Topic created on: July 12, 2007 10:51 CDT by gera .

(if you read datarescue's forums, sorry for the dup)
Hi.

I'm more than happy to finally release this tool (it took me a while to package and feel comfortable enough to release it).

let me copy myself:

HeapDraw/HeapTracer is a tool to visualize the evolution of the heap during the life of an application. The idea is that although we may be used to textual output, like that of ltrace or a malloc/free hooking library, it's much better to see it graphically (in fact I used to make drawings by hand until I realized "WTF am I doing? I have a computer to do it for me!").

HeapTracer is the new name, after it became a runtime analisys tool.

If you are an IDA fan, and like developing for it, you may find interesting the IDA Plugin version, as it's a relatively complex example of an IDA debugging plugin which opens an OpenGL window to make drawings.

feel free to use and contribute:
http://oss.corest.com

In the site you'll also find an example image, a very short presentation (it was a 5 minutes talk at CanSecWest and then at SSTIC), and a tutorial/demo including a step by step on how I used it to do an exploit (it doesn't say much about the exploit itself though).

gera