winefile can't launch any apps!

Andrew de Quincey adq_dvb at lidskialf.net
Wed Dec 10 08:13:38 CST 2003


On Wednesday 10 December 2003 07:50, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Trying to launch any app, e.g. wine's notepad, by double-clicking on
> the .exe in 'winefile' crashes wine, like this:
>
> 0x42079c30 (NTDLL.DLL.strcpy+0x20): movzbl      0x0(%edx),%eax
> Wine-dbg>bt
> Backtrace:
> =>0 0x42079c30 (NTDLL.DLL.strcpy+0x20) (ebp=4072ed8c)
>    1 0x40778fd4 (SHELL32.DLL.FindExecutableW+0x7ec in SHELL32.DLL)
> (ebp=4072f840) 
> 2 0x40779103 (SHELL32.DLL.ShellExecuteExA+0x1f in 
> SHELL32.DLL) (ebp=4072f854) 

While fixing something else, I found loads of potential buffer overflows in 
ShellExecuteExA. I'm sorting 'em out. I don't know if this is your problem 
though; it should work fine as long as the command line to the app is quite 
small.



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