KB185512 - "Illegal Operation" or "Application Error" Opening a Web Page

Article ID: 185512

Article Last Modified on 2/23/2004

Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 128-Bit Edition

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SYMPTOMS

When you try to open a Web page with Internet Explorer, you may receive one of the following error messages in Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0.

Microsoft Windows 95

This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. If the problem persists, contact the program vendor.

If you click Details, one of the following messages may be displayed:

Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module KERNEL32.DLL at 0137:bff798fb

-or-

Explorer caused an invalid page fault in module MSHTML.DLL at 015f:7bd735a3

Microsoft Windows NT 4.0

An Application error has occurred and an application error log is being generated.

Iexplore.exe
Exception: access violation (0xc0000005), Address: 0x70422e5d

CAUSE

This problem can occur if all of the following conditions exist:

The Embed Buffer Overrun security patch for Internet Explorer 4.0 or 4.01 is installed.
You open a Web page that includes an <Embed> tag with a TYPE attribute but no SRC attribute.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, install Internet Explorer 4.01 Service Pack 1 or later. To download the latest version of Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie

To work around this problem, contact the administrator of the Web site and ask to have the SRC attribute and Uniform Resource Locator (URL) added to the <Embed> tag on the Web page.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

Web authors use tags to define the layout and content of Web pages. Each tag is an element of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). The <Embed> tag is a non-standard HTML tag that is used to embed documents of any type in an HTML document. You need to have a program that can view the data installed correctly on your computer. The <Embed> tag must appear inside the body of the HTML document.

Attributes provide additional information used by tags. The SRC attribute is a required attribute for the <Embed> tag and is used to refer to the URL of a data object embedded in the Web page. The TYPE attribute is not supported by Internet Explorer. It is used in conjunction with the <Embed> tag to specify a particular Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type. MIME is used to start a program through a browser.

For information about the use of the <Embed> tag with Internet Explorer 4.0 and 4.01, visit the following Microsoft Web page:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/imedia/windowsmedia/CrContent/object.asp

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