Article ID: 832823 - Last Review: November 15, 2007 - Revision: 2.9

You receive an "Access Violation (0xC0000005 exception)" error in Internet Explorer 6.0

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SYMPTOMS

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 stops responding when you try to open an HTML document or a Web page. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Access Violation (0xC0000005 exception)

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This problem may occur when you use Internet Explorer 6.0 to open an HTML document or a Web page that contains SPAN tags. If a SPAN tag is not closed correctly by using the </SPAN> tag, an access violation may occur.

The <SPAN> tag is an inline element that renders text by using a style sheet. The tag is typically used to change the style of an element or of a block of text.

<SPAN> tags are also used to group inline elements in an HTML document. For example, the following HTML document may cause an access violation because the </SPAN> tag is missing.

<html>
  <body>
      <style type="text/css">
        #three
          {
          position: absolute;
          }
        #one #two
          {
          position: absolute;
          }
      </style>

      <div id="one">
        In 'one'
        <SPAN id="two">
          In 'two'

-> The </SPAN> tag is missing 

      </div>

      <div id="three">
        In 'three'
      </div>
  </body>
</html>

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RESOLUTION

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

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Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 for Windows Server 2003 x86

   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name
   --------------------------------------------------------------
   27-Oct-2004  00:40  6.0.3790.227    2,925,056  Mshtml.dll

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Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1 for Windows Server 2003 IA-64

   Date         Time   Version            Size    File name
   -------------------------------------------------------------------
   27-Oct-2004  01:43  6.0.3790.227    8,230,912  Mshtml.dll     IA-64
   27-Oct-2004  01:40  6.0.3790.227    2,925,056  Wmshtml.dll    x86

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Internet Explorer 6.0 SP1

   Date         Time    Version            Size      File name
   --------------------------------------------------------------
   17-Jun-2004  00:01   6.0.2800.1449    2,692,096   Mshtml.dll

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