Hi Oliver, I also tested the same and am getting the same error with a little variation. The memroy could not be read error is occuring , but the error dialog title shows error in winword.exe in place of dde error. Saroj. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oliver Reeves" <Oliver.Reevesat_private> To: <VULN-DEVat_private> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 5:25 AM Subject: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K > Morning All, > > I was playing around with word this morning, and found something quite > interesting. I thought I'd post it to see what you all thought. > > I'm not sure if this is a known bug in Word 2000, and I can't find out right > now as I don't have web access from my PC at work. > > I can consistently crash Word 2000 using the following method: > > 1) Open up any text/document editor such as notepad or wordpad > 2) type a single word (must be a known word, no punctuation). > 3) highlight the whole word and CTRL+C > 4) launch word 2000 > 5) CTRL+V > 6) press HOME to take you to the start of the line > 7) type I > 8) hit the space bar > > this consistenly crashes word 2000 for me, and i get the following error > message: > > DDE Server Window: WINWORD.EXE - Application Error > The instruction at "0x3076a63e" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The > memory could not be "read". > > I am running: > Win2K 5.00.2195 > Word 2000 9.0.3821 SR-1 > > I doubt that this would be exploitable, but I thought I'd find out if any of > you could reproduce it. > > Thanks > Oliver.
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