590913 - ieshims.dll is missing according to dependency walker

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[pcguy11]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8

Hi,

I read http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=9445 and downloaded dependency walker to check out my applications.  I opened firefox.exe and dependency walker says it can't find ieshims.dll.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  download dependency walker
2.  open firefox
3.
Actual Results:  
Error: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in an implicitly dependent module.
Error: Modules with different CPU types were found.
Warning: At least one delay-load dependency module was not found.
Warning: At least one module has an unresolved import due to a missing export function in a delay-load dependent module.

The modules with different CPU types is because firefox is 32 bit on my windows 7 64bit OS.

Comment 1

[Sheng Jiang]

1 you are running the wrong version of dependency walker. For 32 bit applications you need the 32 bit version of dependency walker. 

2 ieshims.dll is a typical false positive because dependency walker reports all delay-load dependency. Applications that use the dll would load the dll only when the dll does exist.