"The Windows Help utility parses and displays help information for applications. The help information is contained in files of several types that are generated by the Help Compiler (part of the AppWizard utility), and is stored by default in the WINNT\help folder. By default, users can write to this folder. An unchecked buffer exists in the Help utility, and a help file that has been carefully modified could be used to execute arbitrary code on the local machine via a classic buffer overrun technique."See Q231605 for additional information.
Get the X86 version or the Alpha version.
The readme contains:
1. This hotfix is packaged in an auto-install format.
Type the executable name to install it. For example, type "winhlp-i" for x86
platforms or "winhlp-a" for Alpha platforms (without the quotation marks).
2. The files can also be extracted from the hotfix without installing them.
To do this, copy the hotfix to a temporary directory, and type "winhlp-i /x"
or "winhlp-a /x" (without the quotation marks).
After extracting the files, the hotfix can be installed by typing "hotfix"
(without the quotation marks).
NOTE: To obtain the symbol files, simply follow the instructions in step 2 above.
See
tip 0068 for how the hotfix is recorded.
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