http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17539
--- Comment #6 from Jeff Zaroyko jeffz@jeffz.name 2009-04-02 17:09:58 --- (In reply to comment #5)
The patch helps the Entropia Universe installer (bug 14140), which suffers from the same problem, albeit remaining in an infinite loop instead of crashing.
do these applications also crash on Windows if launched from cmd instead of explorer?