IE and Acrobat Reader Crash

[InfoSeeker]

Hi,

I am just wondering if anyone can confirm the following steps to see
if it can cause IE6 to crash.

IE6 has been patched with the latest security patch etc. Acrobat
reader can be 6 or 5.

1) Find a pdf file on your local drive (not the IE temp directory)
2) Bring up IE.
3) Use File | New Window (Ctrl-N) to bring out a second IE Window
4) In this window's address bar, punch in the file://..... to the pdf
file identified in 1)
5) When you can see the PDF document, close that window.

In my test I can consistently cause IE to crash wit 'The memory could
not be "read"' application error.

Can someone confirm that others are also seeing this?

If you bring up the PDF in the first window, IE does not crash. If you
do not open new window but opens the PDF in that window, IE does not
crash.

http:// protocol also produces the same crash.

Anyone know why?

Thanks.

Bob

 

[InfoSeeker]

Hi,

I am just wondering if anyone can confirm the following steps to see
if it can cause IE6 to crash.

IE6 has been patched with the latest security patch etc. Acrobat
reader can be 6 or 5.

1) Find a pdf file on your local drive (not the IE temp directory)
2) Bring up IE.
3) Use File | New Window (Ctrl-N) to bring out a second IE Window
4) In this window's address bar, punch in the file://..... to the pdf
file identified in 1)
5) When you can see the PDF document, close that window.

In my test I can consistently cause IE to crash wit 'The memory could
not be "read"' application error.

Can someone confirm that others are also seeing this?

If you bring up the PDF in the first window, IE does not crash. If you
do not open new window but opens the PDF in that window, IE does not
crash.

http:// protocol also produces the same crash.

Anyone know why?

Thanks.

Bob

For some reason, after installing IE Security Patch "Cumulative
Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB867801)",
this crash
disappears.