Vulnerability Development: Re: Possible Overflow in MS Word 2003

From: Lokutus van Mel <lokutusvanmel_at_gmx.ch>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 19:05:19 +0200

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 .....

gmdalpian_at_gmail.com 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
>
Received on Apr 28 2006