Re: Possible Overflow in MS Word 2003

Lokutus van Mel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.vulnerabilities
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I've the same version in German on two PCs. On one I can reproduce it 
but on the other I can't ...
Can this error contigent on the used OS?
The machine on which I can only reproduce the error is running with MS 
Windows XP Professional SP .....

[email protected] wrote:
 >   Hi!
 >
 >   I've found a bug in Word 2003, that could possibly lead to a buffer 
overflow.
 >   To reproduce the bug, you have simply to create a document with a 
word of 32 or 33 characters (letters or numbers), followed by "." and 
some other character. Ex.:
 >
 > 01234567890123456789012345678901. Test
 >
 >   The text above should crash MS Word 2003, with Buffer Overrun error.
 >   This bug was tested in Microsoft Office Word 2003 (11.6568.6568) 
SP2, brazilian portuguese.
 >   Regards,
 >
 >   Guilherme M. Dalpian
 >
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