released: bug fix for win32k.sys/EXLATEOBJ::bMakeXlate (data field initialization)

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Hello Windows 2000 fans,

by chance I noticed that there is a bug in the function "bMakeXlate" of the class "EXLATEOBJ" in the file "win32k.sys". The initialization of XLATE data structures doesn't fill out all fields. Some fields remain uninitialized and therefore keep their random data which they received during the memory allocation. This can lead to unexpected and unwanted behaviour of functions which read the random values from the affected fields.

There is an update available to fix this problem:

• WINDOWS2000-OTSKB000002-V2-X86-INTL.exe

There is more information available about this issue and this update in the article in the knowledge database:

• OTSKB.chm

The patch updates the file "win32k.sys"

• from the version "5.00.2196.0002"
• to the version "5.00.2196.0003".

Edited May 2 by Start Me Up
Updated the link of the update to version 2

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Version 2 has been released: WINDOWS2000-OTSKB000002-V2-X86-INTL.exe

Users of version 1 (OTSKB000002-V1) are advised to update to version 2.