Re: Explorer crashes when it sees this .lnk file

[robbins.7 () OSU EDU (James A. Robbins)]

I couldn't even read the message.  Eudora would crash when
it tried to open it.  Scrolling down to try to see the file would
crash Windows 98 when the file just came into view in the
window.

> From: Parity Error [mailto:bootup () MAIL RU]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 3:47 PM
> To: VULN-DEV () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Explorer crashes when it sees this .lnk file
>
> Hi all,
>
> 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, ....

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James A. Robbins
Senior Design Engineer, Network Engineer
The Ohio State University
Chemistry Department