Re: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K

[gryphonn () austarnet com au]

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In reply to:
Sender: Oliver Reeves <Oliver.Reeves () compucat com au>
Subject: Word 2000 DDE error on Win2K
Dated: 29 May 2001,
Time: 9:55

> Morning All,

> I'm not sure if this is a known bug in Word 2000, and I can't find out
> right now as I don't have web access from my PC at work.
>
> I 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 for me, and i get 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".
>
> I am running:
> Win2K 5.00.2195
> Word 2000 9.0.3821 SR-1

Hi Oliver

I'm unsure exactly what the character is in (7), but I went with 1, I 
and | and didn't reproduce the problem under a Windows 4.10.2222.A 
(98SE) box running Office 2K Premium (9.0.2720)

Cheers


> I doubt that this would be exploitable, but I thought I'd find out if
> any of you could reproduce it.
>
> Thanks
> Oliver.



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