Morning All, Thanks to everyone for their responses. The summary of responses (over 50 in total) is: Word 2K All versions up to (but not including) 9.0.4402 SR-1 have this problem. From 9.0.4402 SR-1 onwards it appears to be fixed. Cheers Oliver. -----Original Message----- From: Kevin J. Menard, Jr. [mailto:kmenardat_private] Sent: Wednesday, 30 May 2001 12:24 AM To: Oliver Reeves Cc: 'VULN-DEVat_private' Subject: Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Hey Oliver, This does not work for me: Win2k SP1 and all hot fixes up to SP2 Word2k 9.0.4402 SR-1 -- Kevin Monday, May 28, 2001, 7:55:07 PM, you wrote: OR> Morning All, OR> I was playing around with word this morning, and found something quite OR> interesting. I thought I'd post it to see what you all thought. OR> I'm not sure if this is a known bug in Word 2000, and I can't find out right OR> now as I don't have web access from my PC at work. OR> I can consistently crash Word 2000 using the following method: OR> 1) Open up any text/document editor such as notepad or wordpad OR> 2) type a single word (must be a known word, no punctuation). OR> 3) highlight the whole word and CTRL+C OR> 4) launch word 2000 OR> 5) CTRL+V OR> 6) press HOME to take you to the start of the line OR> 7) type I OR> 8) hit the space bar OR> this consistenly crashes word 2000 for me, and i get the following error OR> message: OR> DDE Server Window: WINWORD.EXE - Application Error OR> The instruction at "0x3076a63e" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The OR> memory could not be "read". OR> I am running: OR> Win2K 5.00.2195 OR> Word 2000 9.0.3821 SR-1 OR> I doubt that this would be exploitable, but I thought I'd find out if any of OR> you could reproduce it. OR> Thanks OR> Oliver.
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