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Defense in depth — the Microsoft way (part 43): restricting the DLL load order fails

Posted by Stefan Kanthak on Sep 08

Hi @ll,

according to <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms684179.aspx>
and <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms682586.aspx>,
LoadLibraryEx with LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH should NOT search
the calling program’s application directory:

| Note that the standard search strategy and the alternate search
| strategy specified by LoadLibraryEx with LOAD_WITH_ALTERED_SEARCH_PATH
| differ in just one way: The standard…