Vulnerability
MS Word
Affected
Word 2000 up to (but not including) 9.0.4402
Description
Oliver Reeves found following. He was playing around with word
this morning, and found something quite interesting. We 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 with 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".
Solution
See TID# Q265007 at support.microsoft.com, Known issue, fixed in
SR-2. 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.
Credits
-- UnKnown --
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