Re: Explorer crashes when it sees this .lnk file

[nntp () INAME COM (SM)]

Hi,
At 17:47 28-03-2000 +0400, you wrote:
> Explorer crashes when it "sees" this .lnk file in a directory. Looks like
some
> decoding code for .lnk files crashes when it sees this. The code
> seems to be in a shared dll. U cannot edit this file using any windows based
> hex editor. All apps crash when they see this. This may be exploitable, ....

Windows Explorer under Win98 and WinNT SP5 gives an access violation error
in shell32.dll when the directory where the attachement was decoded is
selected.  Any program that displays long filenames in the File dialog box
will crash if the .lnk file is in the file list.

-sm