Re: WordPad/riched20.dll buffer overflow

[User SCOTT]

This bug is also present in Microsoft's flagship operating system Windows
2000

On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Pauli Ojanpera wrote:

> Just if someone needs to know...
>
> Win98/NT4 Riched20.dll (which WordPad uses) has a classic buffer
> overflow problem with ".rtf"-files.
>
> Crashme.rtf :
> {\rtf\AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA}
>
> A malicious document may probably abuse this to execute arbitary
> code. WordPad crashes with EIP=41414141.
>
> Someone else do deeper investigation since I don't care to.
>
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