The following perl script will create a 250 character file that will crash
WinNT (service pack 3) explorer when right-clicked on:
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$fn = 'A' x 250;
open (FH,">$fn") or die ":$!\n";
print FH "it worked?";
close FH;
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You may have to create the file inside a subdirectory. I think what is
happening here is the path+filename exceeds MAX_PATH.
To delete the file drop to a command window and delete it using it's
shortname (dir /X will display shortnames).
At 05:49 PM 2/9/98 -0800, you wrote:
>>>>
I'm not sure about the details of this problem, but when testing another
buffer overflow, I created a long filename called "testfile.txt
"
(note the chr(160)'s at the end) It is 235 characters in length. After
creating it on my desktop, I right clicked on it; explorer crashed saying
it caused an illegal operation. the only way I found to close this was by
using command.com I sent this to a friend and he got the same error.
-Scott Campbell (<mailto:smcat_private>smcat_private)
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