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The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 2

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-06-26 Cached

A technical blog post by Raymond Chen investigating a memory corruption bug where a single byte 0x01 corrupts HMODULE handles, causing DLLs to be improperly freed and leading to crashes at process termination.

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The case of the DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded, part 1

The Old New Thing (Raymond Chen) · 2026-06-25 Cached

This article investigates a crash dump where a stack overflow caused repeated exception handling loops in shell32.dll during process shutdown. The analysis traces the recursive exception handling and identifies the root cause involving DLL unloading.

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