[9556] in bugtraq
Re: Another Windows98 Bug...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Henke)
Sat Feb 13 16:35:25 1999
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 19:26:14 +0100
Reply-To: f.henke@gmx.de
From: Florian Henke <flo@POWERONLINE.NET>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
> Scott schrieb:
>
> I'm not sure about the details of this problem, but when testing
> another buffer overflow, I created a long filename called
> "testfile.txt
> "
> (note the chr(160)'s at the end) It is 235 characters in length.
> After creating it on my desktop, I right clicked on it; explorer
> crashed saying it caused an illegal operation. the only way I found
> to close this was by using command.com I sent this to a friend and
> he got the same error.
>
> -Scott Campbell (smc@visuallink.com)
I have tried to cause the same error, running a german version of
win98 and did not have any problems, neither on the specific Filelenth
nor on longer filenames.
Florian Henke
f.henke@gmx.de
webmaster@feg.hh.schule.de
