Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K

From: Kevin J. Menard, Jr. (kmenardat_private)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 07:23:54 PDT

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    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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