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Subject: Re: Securax Security Advisory: Windows98 contains a seriousbuffer overflow with long filenameextensions.
From: LiGHTNiNG (lightningL-G-X.DE)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 13:52:11 CDT

>1. Windows 98 (German)
>The explorer crashed after moving the mouse cursor over the
filename. Using the cursor keys and ENTER to open the file
>didn't lead to unusual behaviour.
>The normal dialog to choose the application to open the
>file with was diplayed.
>I think the problem is the little tool tip window that
>shows the whole filename when the mouse is
>moved over a file which's name is to
>long to be entirely displayed.
The Buffer Overflow also occured, when I tried to delete the
file by pressing the "ENTF" (DEL) key.(Win98/German)

Sebastian "LiGHTNiNG" Maciejewski