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Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K
From: "Kevin J. Menard, Jr." <kmenard () WPI EDU>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 10:23:54 -0400
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.
Current thread:
- Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Oliver Reeves (May 28)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K John Schultz (May 29)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K gryphonn (May 29)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Kevin J. Menard, Jr. (May 29)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Saroj Sahu (May 29)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K The Attitude Adjuster (May 29)
- RE: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Snehal Dasari (May 29)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Hedges, Nigel (May 29)
- RE: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Knud Erik Højgaard (May 29)
- RE: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Girard Pascal ThermoARL (May 29)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K martin . goudreault (May 29)
- Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K martin . goudreault (May 29)
- RE: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K Antti Hakulinen (May 29)