Re: bug w2k

[Carl Livitt <carl () ititc com>]

> Just ping
> Now press F7 and Enter (try a couple of times quickly...less than ten , and
> you can see what a meaning)
> The machine reboots, from nothing a warm reboot.

Confirmed on Win2K Pro SP2, English. The reboot would not happen when there 
was no ping process. As soon as a ping was in progress, *boom*.

I did notice there was a STOP, Fatal Error blue screen that appeared briefly, 
but I could not catch what it said before the machine rebooted. Perhaps 
someone else will have more luck?

Does anyone know: is the F7 key (used in CMD.EXE as to bring up a 
most-recently-used command list) implemented in kernel or user space? If its 
in user space, then this is a doubly worrying bug as it hints that it would 
be possible for a non-privileged user to write code that could cause a BSOD 
and reboot. If it's in kernel space, well I just hope that this situation is 
not caused by an unchecked buffer....

Carl Livitt
Code Monkey
IT in the Community
England

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