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PostPosted: Tue May 04 20:46:20 CDT 2004 Top

MFC >> Bad Web Links I have a problem on one particular computer in France. In researching the problem, I thought that the bug was related to the problem reported in

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;30560

This page isn't really dated but was last checked 9/2003

The page also allows downloads of the patch. For English Windows 2000, it leads to page

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6D5E05E6-2D13-4FE7-B322-DFBF1B4589C

which is dated 11/2001. The description on the page does not match the first page, either

Now, the original problem is fixed in Visual Studio 6.0, Service Pack 6 which wasn't released until 3/2004. Service Pack 5 was released in 2000. (At least the Readme's file list doesn't seem to list anything past 2000.) I'm guessing that the first file was generated in 2003, and does not link successfully

Since our problem is not related to this problem (further testing proves that formatting floats isn't crashing us, but I don't know what is crashing us at this point) it does not really affect me, but I would like the ability to download the new MSVCRT DLL on a non-development machine

Thanks

Terry

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Tim





PostPosted: Tue May 04 20:46:20 CDT 2004 Top

MFC >> Bad Web Links Terry,

MS01-060 indicates this is a Security Bulletin. IE the update listed is one
provided to customers via Windows Update (as an EG) and that it was
documented in 2001 (MS01) and is the sixtieth bulletin of that year (-060).
In addition, reading the details on the English US XP version of the patch
indicates that the only known potential exploit for this security issue is
with SQL Server Queries. Obviously there may be more potential exploits.

There is bound to have been a 'double' fix for this - one in the msvcrt code
to check precision is within limits and one in SQL Server to ensure that
format strings are correct.

Hint: If the problem is with a French locale installation, then check on
locale specific issues EG format strings (thousands and decimal separators,
parsing methods are correct for locale), and encryption limitations in
France.

- Tim


"Terry Steyaert" <EMail@HideDomain.com> wrote in message
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> I have a problem on one particular computer in France. In researching the
problem, I thought that the bug was related to the problem reported in:
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305601
>
> This page isn't really dated but was last checked 9/2003.
>
> The page also allows downloads of the patch. For English Windows 2000, it
leads to page:
>
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=6D5E05E6-2D13-4FE7-B322-DFBF1B4589C1
>
> which is dated 11/2001. The description on the page does not match the
first page, either.
>
> Now, the original problem is fixed in Visual Studio 6.0, Service Pack 6
which wasn't released until 3/2004. Service Pack 5 was released in 2000.
(At least the Readme's file list doesn't seem to list anything past 2000.)
I'm guessing that the first file was generated in 2003, and does not link
successfully.
>
> Since our problem is not related to this problem (further testing proves
that formatting floats isn't crashing us, but I don't know what is crashing
us at this point) it does not really affect me, but I would like the ability
to download the new MSVCRT DLL on a non-development machine.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Terry