To me this looks like a bug that crashes the ntvdm, then corrupts the stack until windows eventually dies with a "windows subsystem failure". Which was the error message when I ran it on my acer laptop. The reason the other computers reboot is because of an option set in System/Advanced/Startup and Recovery/Automatically Reboot. Cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Carl Livitt [mailto:carlat_private] Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2001 8:25 PM To: bugtraqat_private Subject: Re: bug w2k Does anyone know: is the F7 key (used in CMD.EXE as to bring up a most-recently-used command list) implemented in kernel or user space? If its in user space, then this is a doubly worrying bug as it hints that it would be possible for a non-privileged user to write code that could cause a BSOD and reboot. If it's in kernel space, well I just hope that this situation is not caused by an unchecked buffer....
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